Comments on: Is a complete all-era worldwide stamp collection possible?

By: Keijo

Keijo — Sun, 18 Apr 2010 07:57:26 +0000

Here’s something that I think will interest people following this post: http://globalstamps.blogspot.com/2010/04/how-many-stamps-were-issued-between.html

Bob has done quite an interesting post about the number of stamps issued between 1840-1940 based on Scott. He estimates that there are roughly 91,000 different stamps from the era … This is quite different from my rough estimate of 50-60,000 stamps.

So why the difference? As I’ve done some cross-catalog comparisons of the early years (and hopefully can find the time do complete them on upcoming summer), I think that one of the biggest causes are different numbering systems. What is worth a major number in one stamp catalogue, may not be that in another stamp catalogue. I fear that this alone contributes to very large (up to 20-30%) differences in numbers.

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:03:07 +0000

Paul’s collection definelty gives us something to shoot for… I wonder if he has any advice to us working on our world collections. It looks like he went the Scott International route, and I see some Harris standard albums in there too. It seems 250,000 stamps would fill about 100 Scott International Albums.

By: Keijo

Keijo — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:05:16 +0000

Looks superb, Paul!

Seeing images such as this make the goal a very realistic one.

By: paul laniosz

paul laniosz — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:08:30 +0000

Here is a picture of my collection….http://i463.photobucket.com/albums/qq358/stamp12345/paulscollection-1.jpg

By: Keijo

Keijo — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:00:19 +0000

Hi David,

The site is new to me too… Truly amazing achievemt and something to look for.

I was aware of Dr.Meng collection, that Amos used as the source of images for their improved Scott catalogues at the turn of the millenium. Very likely it is/was the largest worldwide collection to exist. Some (if not all) parts of it were sold last year by the Harmer’s auction.