How About A Big Blue 1840-1940 Thread?

Nora - hello again, and thank you. I don't suppose that I'll fill in most of the gaps on my Monaco pages - some expensive stamps there. I do like the designs, though.

I'm not sure which edition this is, but the ad says 1,200 pages

Or you can go to part 10 with 200,000 spaces and 10,000 pages

Thanks, landofquakes - that's about what I had roughly figured.

John

Those are some old ads.

Land --- Nice advertisements , enjoy reading their view of stamp collecting .

Like this "you buy a serious album only once in your lifetime "

Did you notice in the picture above of those 10 volumes , that the binders are already max out with those new pages . You start adding stamps that widen the binders outward . Then you add glassine 's interleaves between the pages widen it out some more . Now GOD help you if you start using mounts on your pages .

Tell me how long will those binders last when the front of each binder is shaped like a "V" the stress on the BLUE binders is beyond ripping ,you can't grip the front of each binder with one hand .

I think one starts adding extra pages about ten minutes after picking one of these up! I wonder when they switched over to thicker paper… sometime in the 80s…

I wonder who's achieved the most completion past 1940?

1 binder fits a whole century, and by the time the ad was written, 1 binder fits 1 year... The mind boggles!

Gvol21---- Every W.W. collector I know ,has all ready picked a cutoff date . Nobody continued into the 2000's usually 1960's or 1970's .

Those old ads are great. I would love to see more from different eras. BTW, the current volume (for 2021 stamp issues) is 57 which is actually two parts (57A and 57B). I think they've been 2 parts per year since sometime in the 80's.

They're on my shelves now, but I haven't opened them yet! Our show in Nashville was 2 weeks after the Knoxville show (where I made the purchase) and all of my stamp time was getting ready.



I know that there is an article, I think it is called "They collected the World", where 2 collectors completed volumes 1-7.

On Jim Jackson's Big Blue blog, his co-author "Bud", who has finished Volume 1, is only a few hundred stamps from completing Volumes 2-5. I'm hoping in my big set, that I can find a few that he needs!

floortrader:

All excellent points. It seems to me that the simple (if more expensive) remedy is to not stuff the blues, but to just buy more binders...

For those of you who use standard blue international binders (advertised capacity is 300) how many pages do you actually put in them (assuming you use glassine interleaves)?

Same question for jumbo binders (advertised capacity is 400) - how many pages do you actually put in them (assuming you use glassine interleaves)?

John

I have my 1947 edition volume 1 (1200 double-sided pages according to post above aka 600 sheets), spread across 2 of the "small" (300 page) sized binders. That's with glassine interleaving in between every sheet, and also without USA pages. But it's been getting really tight and I definitely need to move to a third binder.

The newer editions are 4 parts just for volume 1, with thicker paper and less compact page layout (no more multiple countries per page), some countries removed. That is quite a jump--quadruple the space even though less coverage! Anybody know what year they changed to 4 parts for volume 1?

TSMATX ---I have the four volume set , it has a copyright of 1997 printed on the front cover page .