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

GeoffHa ----agree there is stuff we don't care for ,or want to make the effort to buy and mount but that comes with the territory . For me as a WW collector the only thing is to hope it shows up in a multi-box purchase ,so I feel it just along for the ride without spending money on it .

What would the SCV ranges for these categories?

Floor- the 2 paper types have strongly different gum, one being brownish to brown and the other clear and white.

Complete sets always look nice on those home-made pages! One rarely finds sets like these in random box lots. Lots of short sets though!

Another fun country to collect , it was a country a young collector had trouble to find stamps for . All my early albums always had blank spaces for Cambodia and only once I began to attend stamp auctions did I ever see stamps from this country .

Just received a stamp auction catalog in the mail this past week . Last night , sat down to see what it contained . Seen a stamp that I only see once ,that was while I was in High School at our local stamp club almost 60 years ago . The owner was showing it off to the whole stamp club as his "gem" it cataloged around $500.00 ,everyone at the club made a big deal over it .

I said to myself ,someday I am going to have a copy ,someday never came . The price continued to climb ,seen it many times up for auction but it never was the right time as other interest took it's place . Last night decided the heck with this and my desire never was filled and if you asked me 60 years ,50years ago ,even 20 years ago this was the stamp I was missing and wanted ,so from 15 years old to now 75 years old .....screw it ..... Looked at the stock market today and with everything down too much I put the trade on to get MY STAMP . Lets just say market correction or not that auction lot is going home to me .

cheap stamps in nice album 10-30% cat stamps that catalog for 20-25 cents which are really worth 1 penny or less. Most collections though have much 5-10 dollar stuff
Better stamps 30-50% cat Better really refers to stamps with lower print runs or in demand stamps. They can range from 10 bucks all the way to 200 dollars
Rare stamps 50-80% cat - Rare stamps are the blanks in everyone's album usually due to cost - ~200 plus or 200-2000 range
These are just ball park numbers. Exceptions everywhere. For example, there are rare stamps bought at auction for even 100 dollars.

Green Dragon ---- You have to give a higher percentage of value to any complete set . As for me the value is one thing but when I see anybody's collection the fact their is a lot of complete sets that rings a bell with me to keep looking at the collection .

I know a lot of readers here just count stamps for a total but for me it is the viewing of complete sets that puts the collection at a higher level..

As we discussed before most box lots and mixtures available both at auction firms and on ebay have been picked over three or four times before you get a chance at it .So it is no surprise any complete sets are long gone

New addition to my collecting ,Trinidad is one of those countries that when you look thru other people's collection you only find a few stamps . To have a complete set is extra special for any collector .

Here is something that is unusual a stamp album /binder for the PITCAIRN ISLANDS .
I could find no reference of a album being sold as a separate country ,they are usually just a few pages in a album for the British area of the Pacific . .This week I made up a binder of just Pitcairn Islands . Have about 50 pages in it and some 50 different sets included .

Here is a problem that I have not figured out for years .

As a worldwide collector .I have purchased many other people's collection . My usual method is just remove the stamps and add them to my collection and throw away the previous owners albums and binders . But sometimes you receive pages well done in art work or someone spend the time to do a artful layout .

My thing is just put it on the bookcase and deal with it later . But later never comes for years ,here is a page of a large binder full with nice art work that I just don't want to destroy or remove the stamps so I just keep it intact .

floortrader, that artful layout stack could make an extremely nice appendix album for your collection. I measured scott pages and minkus pages. Both are 9.25 inches wide by 11.25 inches high. Scott specialty album pages are 10 inches wide by 11.5 inches high.

I searched a bit and found at least one supplier of 12 inch by 12 inch page protectors for 3-ring binders. A bit pricey but it would look nice I think. It would be a very interesting beautiful-page collection!

floor trader - agree. If the collection is filled with complete sets, and better items I am willing to pony up.

I think the Russia page is very attractive and interesting. That said, it greatly distracts my eyes from appreciating the stamps.

I have that problem with pages or entire albums! Not very space efficient for sure, but fun to look at