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

Love the early Swedish values; it was the 12 ore that first taught me the difference between blue and ultramarine...

One more on the subject of hinge paper coatings... alas, nothing here from Dennison about hinges specifically!

Interesting how the article reads that "gummed paper goes though a number of processes relative to gumming ." the way this was written states there was a process was it a chemical added that weaken the ability of the glue ? was it a special way it was applied . Like two coats of glue ,first a thin harder coat then a softer easier layer that dissolves when wet , or was TALC added to release the gum better ? Something was done but what?

Nice stamps from France floortrader. I've been putting in the time like you said and just hit my 100th Steiner page done. I'm realizing it's probably going to take at least 10 years to get all my stamps converted to my Steiner system. That's if I don't acquire any new stamps which certainly won't be the case I'm always adding more. One of my most time consuming aspects when assembling pages is looking through my albums and all my country glassines to find what I percieve as the best example of each stamp that I own to display. Some stamps of course I have in 3 or 4 different albums and multiple duplicates in glassines. I'm curious if you could share how many hours per month you feel you have spent over the years and how much time it really it has taken to put together your amazing collection? Thanks

Good questions floortrader and I guess that if anyone had the answer to these questions they would have put that knowledge to good use. Nice page of France stamps.

KyleB ---- It is a long term commitment, which takes time . Building a large worldwide collection takes time and money over many decades . Since there is no road map ,each collector needs to figure out what works for them .

Your journey going down this path is going to be filled with a lot of potholes and nobody ever wrote a article or story of the troubles and problems you will have to deal with .

Like I said some problem will only apply to you and nobody else . One of mine was the weight of the bookcases
with a second floor bedroom for stamps . So when I moved to Florida I needed a first floor on a concrete slab to take the weight of four fully loaded bookcases .
Another problem which we face with Steiner pages was in Chicago I was using a nice cream color paper to print on from International Paper . 3 years later they discontinued that paper , the color and weight was no longer being made . Now I keep a stock of the new paper that I use.

Love that French set - the 1930s commemoratives are some of my favorites, and perhaps the only stamps in my entire collection that I prefer to collect mint, rather than used, just because the engraving is so exquisite.

Notice that I talk about the long term commitment of collecting stamps That is a subject that most people understand and can read about it from others in the philatelic press over the years . I read articles about 10 years 20 or even 40 years to the hobby.

But there is another area that each one of us goes thru ,but nothing is written about BOREDOM . After so many years it gets to be not fun any more and we feel is it worth it , you understand it as the SAME OLD ,SAME OLD.

i ran into this during my 65 years of collecting stamps ,especially as a worldwide collector . Same reason many quit and move on with their lives and the stamp collection ends up in a closet ,untouched for years .

My escape from that was to change focus . Change focus was not to stop collecting but attack my goal from a different direction . I first worked on building up certain countries and getting into the finer points of the speciality of each country . After a few years of that moved on to some thing else .

So moving on was needed ,then on this board the subject came up to collect A STAMP FROM EVERY COUNTRY .This was fun for a few years and bought a lot of unusual material all still building my collection . Then after awhile moved on to having a forgery collection ,after a few years of that moved on to building a Spanish Civil War collection . Then it was two years of a decent size Cinderella collection when a good friend died who was the master specialist of Cinderella Stamps . His collection came up for auction at Regency Auction .

So you see how my collection kept growing and BOREDOM never was a issue with me .
Here is a page I made up while A STAMP FROM EVERY COUNTRY ,was a populat subject on this chat board .

would like to see some of the Cindys

nice spice for the collection

The one that shown in the previous cinderelas is the López Palace, it is the Government Palace, headquarters of the Executive Branch and is located in the capital city, Asunción.

More of the material that comes to me from purchases that I like to call "comes free for the ride " . This comes in a large purchase of dealer stock books of the British Colonies .

I don't collect this far ,my thing is to collect pre-1980's ,but if something comes with the purchase I will make a page for it .

Regarding Sweden, I have been working on filling a Scott Hingeless album copyright 1972 for stamps from 1855 through 1972 plus a number of supplement pages which add the period up through 1979. The collection is mint only with the exception of a single stamp, Scott #26, on the first page which snuck in when I wasn't looking. :)

Currently I have 1270 different stamps in the album and am missing 114 of which I figure I might eventually get 46 if I get lucky. Currently I have seven different mint stamps on the first page of the album and seventeen on the second page of the album.

In addition I have a solid group of stamps in my mint International 1840-1963 collection with 133 of 211 stamps in the Part I album for 1840-1940, 63 of 77 stamps in the Part II album for 1940-1949, 49 of 62 stamps in the Part III album for 1950-1955, 37 of 40 stamps in the Part IV album for 1956-1959, and 58 of 59 stamps in the Part V album for 1960-1963.

JBAXTER --Congratulations on Sweden . Be sure to post here when you get Sweden #1 in orange .