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Welcome....
" I know, there is no accounting for taste.
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And there is no rhyme or reason to stamp collecting..
You collect what you want
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Bob, Welcome it is always good to see another crazy world wide collector. I'm glad to hear you have enjoyed my Page of the Day posts. Hope you have my site bookmarked and are using it. It can be very helpful in many ways for the world collector.
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Bob, I've always enjoyed your blog. Thank you for all the work you put into it. I collect the world too.
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Welcome you brave soul who collects the world! I am sure you always find something when you look at a stamp shop, show, bourse, or club!
David in Ottawa, Canada.
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I can't consider myself a worldwide collector yet, but I decided to collect world wide used a while back. Little did I know I would be spending months and months sorting out the masses of accumulations I had just into countries.
I am making progress but it seems never ending.
When I decided to collect world wide it was for the reason that my specialist South African collection required loads of money to improve and add to. So I set the tasks as follows.
- Sort out all stamps acquired over the many years into countries.
- Sell off any mint items or items no longer fitting into world wide used, or South Africa mint/specialised.
- Hang onto other world wide variety items. I like common plate flaws so pick them up every now and then.
- Choose country to work on (Probably start with British Commonwealth countries) and fathom best methods of storing collection. Will probably use stampalbum pages when I get there.
- Get rid of duplicates and move onto next country.
I am still on task one, I didn't realise how much I had and find it frustrating at times as I feel I haven't started the collecting part yet.
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I'm not certain what bumped up my original post, but I appreciate all of the additional thank you and other comments.
In spite of all the defects, I'm happy with my choice of the Scott International. The album provides a nice overview of the first hundred years of philately, and enough blank room in the margins for the addition of a few favorite stamps for which there are not spaces. And I'm benefiting from the work of other collectors such as Jim Jackson's checklist of the 35K stamps in the Volume One and Dilip Limaye's project that will give us the catalog value of those stamps.
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There are, of course, several different "flavors" of worldwide collectors. Some collect every stamp up to the present time, some collect every stamp of the first 100 years or so, and some collect the "Scott International way."
I have tried many different ways and I always seem to return to the "Scott International way" It just fits to my budget and the level of time and effort I'm able to devote to my collection.
Bob, I just want to thank you for being an unapologetic "Big Blue" collector! 
Chris
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ChrisW, thanks. I like your phrase: unapologetic "Big Blue" collector. That would make a fine epitaph.
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Yep another whole world collector.
After collecting KG VI for many years my interest shifted to buying boxes of stamps and sorting them takes up my time when bored.
Finally wrote database to keep track of them all and make very simple album pages.
Had to sell after reaching nearly 200,000 different 10 years ago just getting back into it.
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I've been lurking here for a while, enjoying A-Ra and others' posts. As to my collecting interests, I'm trying to fill a Scott Blue International Volume One. I know, there is no accounting for taste.
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Welcome....
" I know, there is no accounting for taste.
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And there is no rhyme or reason to stamp collecting..
You collect what you want
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Bob, Welcome it is always good to see another crazy world wide collector. I'm glad to hear you have enjoyed my Page of the Day posts. Hope you have my site bookmarked and are using it. It can be very helpful in many ways for the world collector.
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Bob, I've always enjoyed your blog. Thank you for all the work you put into it. I collect the world too.
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Welcome you brave soul who collects the world! I am sure you always find something when you look at a stamp shop, show, bourse, or club!
David in Ottawa, Canada.
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re: Yet another worldwide collector
I can't consider myself a worldwide collector yet, but I decided to collect world wide used a while back. Little did I know I would be spending months and months sorting out the masses of accumulations I had just into countries.
I am making progress but it seems never ending.
When I decided to collect world wide it was for the reason that my specialist South African collection required loads of money to improve and add to. So I set the tasks as follows.
- Sort out all stamps acquired over the many years into countries.
- Sell off any mint items or items no longer fitting into world wide used, or South Africa mint/specialised.
- Hang onto other world wide variety items. I like common plate flaws so pick them up every now and then.
- Choose country to work on (Probably start with British Commonwealth countries) and fathom best methods of storing collection. Will probably use stampalbum pages when I get there.
- Get rid of duplicates and move onto next country.
I am still on task one, I didn't realise how much I had and find it frustrating at times as I feel I haven't started the collecting part yet.
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Welcome to Stamporama!
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02:12:05pm
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I'm not certain what bumped up my original post, but I appreciate all of the additional thank you and other comments.
In spite of all the defects, I'm happy with my choice of the Scott International. The album provides a nice overview of the first hundred years of philately, and enough blank room in the margins for the addition of a few favorite stamps for which there are not spaces. And I'm benefiting from the work of other collectors such as Jim Jackson's checklist of the 35K stamps in the Volume One and Dilip Limaye's project that will give us the catalog value of those stamps.
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re: Yet another worldwide collector
There are, of course, several different "flavors" of worldwide collectors. Some collect every stamp up to the present time, some collect every stamp of the first 100 years or so, and some collect the "Scott International way."
I have tried many different ways and I always seem to return to the "Scott International way" It just fits to my budget and the level of time and effort I'm able to devote to my collection.
Bob, I just want to thank you for being an unapologetic "Big Blue" collector!
Chris
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ChrisW, thanks. I like your phrase: unapologetic "Big Blue" collector. That would make a fine epitaph.
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02:24:57am
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Yep another whole world collector.
After collecting KG VI for many years my interest shifted to buying boxes of stamps and sorting them takes up my time when bored.
Finally wrote database to keep track of them all and make very simple album pages.
Had to sell after reaching nearly 200,000 different 10 years ago just getting back into it.
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