Post by crispinhj on Jan 24, 2015 1:56:57 GMT -5
I've already posted a few pages from my old Ideal albums under country headings but at the moment my main interest is in filling these albums, so worldwide collecting. As Jim has noted in his inspirational and very informative blog about filling his bigblue1840-1940.blogspot.co.uk/search?updated-max=2014-03-30T11:45:00-07:00&max-results=20, the compilers of these one size fits all albums have sometimes made curious choices about which stamps to include and which to exclude. I've never seen one of the Scott albums, although I've bought odd pages from sellers on ebay, which have confirmed what I've read. It seems that at least there's a bit of logic to their general policy in that they tend to exclude all expensive stamps.
This page from Bolivia already contains one stamp I'm delighted to have got that I snagged on ebay for pennies, the rather gaudy 2 bolivar stamp with the coat of arms. I never thought I'd get that stamp, used or unused. Unfortunately I'm going to have to get very lucky to find the remaining stamps for the sort of prices I'm prepared to pay. And Stanley Gibbons seem to have included in lots of the countries stamps which are out of reach of many collectors unless you get lucky and find an accumulation of stamps with lots of the missing treasures in, so I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm unlikely ever to complete many of the countries, although many pages could get completed - although even then one or two choice stamps might be missing from the majority of the pages. So that page from Bolivia may never have any more of those blanks filled.
This page from Bolivia already contains one stamp I'm delighted to have got that I snagged on ebay for pennies, the rather gaudy 2 bolivar stamp with the coat of arms. I never thought I'd get that stamp, used or unused. Unfortunately I'm going to have to get very lucky to find the remaining stamps for the sort of prices I'm prepared to pay. And Stanley Gibbons seem to have included in lots of the countries stamps which are out of reach of many collectors unless you get lucky and find an accumulation of stamps with lots of the missing treasures in, so I've resigned myself to the fact that I'm unlikely ever to complete many of the countries, although many pages could get completed - although even then one or two choice stamps might be missing from the majority of the pages. So that page from Bolivia may never have any more of those blanks filled.
