Pushing 330,000 All Different Worldwide Stamps In One Collection .

I have several collections (all common) and there are plenty of stamps to keep one busy to sort, identify, and even mount if I get the mood.

GeoffHa -----Agree with your posting , there is a certain progression we as stamp collectors go thru .

I can detail the progress I made and have to believe it is the same for many others . At a young age ,started with buying worldwide mixtures . The first few purchases were 100 W.W. stamps thru mail order at 10 cents each but after the first 3 mixtures the amount of duplicates kept increases. By the 4 or 5th lots purchased ,there were few new stamps .
This progression went on for the rest of my life, until country collections or area collections like French Colonies or Spain with Colonies went into the hundreds of dollars .After 15 years of that ,now buying better sets or specialized studies .
I think most collectors go thru this building process of growing or expanding their stamp collection .