Want To Start Collecting World Stamps

In my opinion, philately has a much wider scope and breadth of enjoyment than what some album maker thinks I ought to collect.
Don

Scotland is an achievable goal I guess there are about 200 stamps if you include watermark and phosphor variaties, it might look a bit visually dull because 79 of them are the same design but different colors and values. Ireland is two different countries? Republic of Ireland or Northern Ireland. They both used Brtish stamps till 1922 when the republic became independent and after using ther existing stocks of British stamps with overprints. There are about 500 stamps for the Republic. for Northern Ireland there are I guess about 200 stamps and like scotland there is not a lot of variety, because the commemoratives are all issued for The UK as a whole. I collect the GB regionals as they are called and they are not too difficult to get in the UK.
When you have 50 posts and can communicate direct I could give you a good head start with regonal stamps of Northern Ireland, Scotland, or even Wales. I use loose pages because then I can do what I please in my Albums. I have nearly as many stock books as albums.
Collecting stamps and Philatelic items that are examples of words with a special meaning in Philately is good fun, and you learn a lot about stamps gnerally. I call this my terms and Phrases collection. It contains airmails, postage dues, revenue, officals, FDCs, Disney stamps, Black jacks, Yachts.........

After five decades of collecting only U.S. stamps, I branched out in 2023 to begin collecting Mexico and just this past week added Canada to the mix. I've begun to realize that there are so many beautiful older stamps from other countries and I needed to expand my collecting horizons for a few reasons. The stamps that I'm missing in my U.S. collection are becoming more expensive and difficult to find, I've become disillusioned with the clip art modern U.S. stamp issues, and I want to expand my collection to countries that have beautiful stamps related to that country's history. Mexico and Canada are fulfilling that for me now. I imagine that in the not so distant future, I'll continue to expand to include other countries as well. The world has too many amazing stamps to limit it to just a single country.

Walkman, perhaps as your collecting interests evolve you might consider St. Pierre and Miquelon. Earlier issues include some cool bicolored typographed issues as well as classic-era issues back to 1894. The territory did become quite a bit more philatelically "energetic" in the 1960s, however there were some well designed engraved stamps into the 1970s.

St. Pierre would be consistent with a growing collection of North America.

Shermae, excellent suggestion. I've looked at the stamps and they are pretty cool. Thanks!

Walkman: you could almost put a blindfold in and throw a dart at a map of the world and find beautiful engraved classic stamps with amazing colors from almost any country between 1895 and 1925. This includes the poorest countries on earth. If I was to pick one country to collect post WWII, it would be France—pound for pound the most consistently beautiful stamps—but not the classic era, which is what I collected.

Czech stamps are generally cheap, and very well-designed. Still to this day, Prague's printers crank out high-quality engravings.

Tunisia is another country that has maintained high standards for stamp design.

Yes, I'd pick Czechoslovakia above France for design quality, particularly once French stamps started to go downhill in the 1970s.

I will not suggest to go and try with WoldWide collection, with material fromhere-tothere, just because of "to have a lot of stamps"!
I think that go and specialize ONE country, will be really interesting way to spend time (and money), educate point is important!
I made it with Yugoslavia, and from there expanded to former (dependent) Countries that come after destruction of Yugoslavia!
But, all depend of persons interest and point what is "wish to reach" with own collection!