How Many Scott Vol 1 1875 Albums Sold ?

I'm looking for another one since 2020. This came out of a small town grocery outdoor storage building for a few hundred $ . Any idea of cost in 1875 , ads, total # printed ?

No idea about the original price or quantity printed, but I'd love to see some more photos of this album and the stamps! There's some pretty cool stuff in what you've shared already.

I have put the Scott vol 1 into 4 stock books. Here are some original photos plus a Russia page from 1888 album.

Sorry for the picture quality, I eventually bought a nice Epson scanner.

Wow! That set of the US 1869 pictorials is great. As well as the early German states. This is definitely not your average album you find at a garage sale or antique mall.

Thanks VanishingCave, this collection was in one family from a boy born in 1860 , 3 generations over 160 years. Then to sit in an outdoor warehouse of a small town grocery store. Maybe a thread of wacky improbable excavations would be a popular topic. This was a shocking entry into foreign stamp interest which now gives me more activity in retirement and enjoyment too.

Now this is a nice modern used collection all assembled with stamps less that 30 years old.

Very nice - would love to hear more about the story behind the find!

It actually was not a find. I was at an outdoor tool auction with coins and stamps. A gentleman saw me buying most of the stamps and asked me if I might like to see more. So a few days later I drive to his town and agreed on price. Then I buy a Scott catalog set and was blown away with what the boy born in 1860 had passed on to his son and grandson.

The seller was not related to the 3 generation collectors. I think it was just given to his wife and got stuck in an outdoor warehouse. There must be thousands of tucked away collections just waiting to be stumbled upon. Gotta be one more Magenta……

Any data bases or articles on # albums ever printed ?

Presumably the only people who'd have had records would have been the original publishers, who doubtless consigned such stuff to the bin years ago.

When the earliest stamp albums first came out, they were gambling on the new hobby growing - which it gradually did for some decades into the 20th century and then began major growth in the 1930s and after at least through the 1970s and 80s when growth in stamp collecting leveled off or stagnated -- whichever way you want to put it. In the earliest years of stamp collecting and stamp albums, of course they only covered the early stamps up to 1875 or 1880 or 1890, so each country had only a few pages and could presumably be collected in some detail if you had access to stamp dealers from which to buy the stamps. Imagine needing only a hundred or fewer stamps to complete a country. What an opportunity.

The only way to know how many albums were sold in those years as with any years is to ask the publisher -- if they kept records. This was the Scott Publishing Company aka Scott Stamp and Coin which still exists as part of Amos Media in Ohio these days. If anyone knows how many albums they sold of each edition, it would be them. But I doubt they have those records at all -- or available, at least. The other source you could ask would be the American Philatelic Society in Pennsylvania which has lots of historical records about stamp collecting.

That is one great album you managed to find. It's both filled with above-average stamps in way more depth than the average collector would manage to do, it looks well mounted and not the usual mess you often see in older stamp albums, and it seems well preserved although after 150 years those album pages have to be disintegrating and gassing off acid which might be harming the stamps on them. All this paper was acidic and likely to last only a century or so.

I've always thought the cover illustration with the two suit-wearing young boys holding up banners was one of the weirdest and most overdesigned things I've ever seen on a stamp album.

Thanks DrewM, what a start into my first foray into the foreign field. I had a US collection from a meticulous relative's estate in 2018. I was in a stamp club in the late 60's while in jr high. Besides USA, I focus on Canada, Australia,Germany, France, back of book