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Am generally impressed at semi-postal designs from that era. It's as if governments went to extra lengths to make the semis more desirable.
And if you don't want that beauty, send it my way. I've got a place for it! 
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Yes, it is a most beautiful stamp. The engraving is second to none.
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Beautiful stamp!
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You need an album of misfit stamps!
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Phil, that brings up the question of spacefillers. Who uses 'em, who doesn't and why.
I do. I place a faulty but mostly complete stamp in the album and a small "X" in pencil below. Since my inventory is simply hundreds of JPG images, I have the condition at my fingertips on my tablet when I travel.
Since I try to collect used stamps, I occasionally place an unused stamp in as a spacefiller. Now I'm finding a bunch of stamps for which the used variety are either harder to find or more expensive or fraudulently canceled or all three. I may re-think my strategy to collect the less expensive variety.
Oh, the roller-coaster pleasures of trying to fill Scott Internationals to 1965... 
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Steve, you are right.. i have some hundred year old hi catalog stamps..that probably meet space filler status...my scott internationals run to 1969 because i was picking up albums when i could get them cheap. I am not too impressed with the 1966 to 1969 issues.
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Phil, that's good to know. I similarly picked up an additional volume. I was looking for only Parts I-IV, but Part V came along for the ride. In hindsight, I might have been better off just putting Part V away, but I'm now collecting it. Like your Part VI, I'm not overly impressed with Part V.
By the way, how many binders do you use? I use 7 binders now for Parts I-V, and they are bursting. I plan to add an 8th to spread out the load a bit. Amazing how much thickness glassine interleaves and the stamps themselves add, even when 99+% are hinged.
-Steve
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I collect through volume 6 International. I bought those in my twenties and did not wish to keep chasing album pages. The one benefit of dipping my toes into the 'wallpaper' years since is a smattering of new countries gives perspective without chasing the gush of issues since. By the by my 6 volumes are expanded to 12 to accommodate glassines and the replacement pages I make to give complete coverage for my strong country collections.
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As i picked up single country albums..i would stop adding the stamps from those countries to my worldwide albums...but there is still duplication...i really do not like to remove the stamps that have been in the international albums for these many years.
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Richard, 2:1 seems about right for where I'm headed--realistically around 50% complete at most. Ten binders for Parts I-V. Hard to believe, but for those thin double-sided early Scott pages, a stamp on either side and two folded hinges is likely more than 2x page thickness. Add in glassine interleaves, and it may well take 3:1 or 4:1 to house a 100% full International album. That would be 15 to 20 binders!
Phil, I'm starting down that path now as well. I've come into about a dozen Scott Specialty albums recently and am at odds as to how to deal with the overlap. Common sense would tell me to remove the pages from the Internationals and collect those dozen or so countries only in the Speciality albums. But stamp collecting, common sense, and me don't fit together in the same sentence.
So, for now, I'm leaving the Internationals as they are for those countries and building them out in the Specialty albums. Fortunately nothing too valuable yet. At some point, I'll probably make scans of stamps above a certain CV and put those scans in the International. Or, as one collector did, put a stamp-sized note in some of the spaces that says, "see other album" or something to that effect.
-Steve
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Isn't this a beautiful stamp ? The only reason i have it is that it came as a defective stamp ...perfs in the lower left corner are cut off. I do not put defective stamps in my albums..what a shame.
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Am generally impressed at semi-postal designs from that era. It's as if governments went to extra lengths to make the semis more desirable.
And if you don't want that beauty, send it my way. I've got a place for it!
-Steve
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Yes, it is a most beautiful stamp. The engraving is second to none.
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You need an album of misfit stamps!
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Phil, that brings up the question of spacefillers. Who uses 'em, who doesn't and why.
I do. I place a faulty but mostly complete stamp in the album and a small "X" in pencil below. Since my inventory is simply hundreds of JPG images, I have the condition at my fingertips on my tablet when I travel.
Since I try to collect used stamps, I occasionally place an unused stamp in as a spacefiller. Now I'm finding a bunch of stamps for which the used variety are either harder to find or more expensive or fraudulently canceled or all three. I may re-think my strategy to collect the less expensive variety.
Oh, the roller-coaster pleasures of trying to fill Scott Internationals to 1965...
-Steve
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Steve, you are right.. i have some hundred year old hi catalog stamps..that probably meet space filler status...my scott internationals run to 1969 because i was picking up albums when i could get them cheap. I am not too impressed with the 1966 to 1969 issues.
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Phil, that's good to know. I similarly picked up an additional volume. I was looking for only Parts I-IV, but Part V came along for the ride. In hindsight, I might have been better off just putting Part V away, but I'm now collecting it. Like your Part VI, I'm not overly impressed with Part V.
By the way, how many binders do you use? I use 7 binders now for Parts I-V, and they are bursting. I plan to add an 8th to spread out the load a bit. Amazing how much thickness glassine interleaves and the stamps themselves add, even when 99+% are hinged.
-Steve
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re: A Beautiful stamp !
I collect through volume 6 International. I bought those in my twenties and did not wish to keep chasing album pages. The one benefit of dipping my toes into the 'wallpaper' years since is a smattering of new countries gives perspective without chasing the gush of issues since. By the by my 6 volumes are expanded to 12 to accommodate glassines and the replacement pages I make to give complete coverage for my strong country collections.
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re: A Beautiful stamp !
As i picked up single country albums..i would stop adding the stamps from those countries to my worldwide albums...but there is still duplication...i really do not like to remove the stamps that have been in the international albums for these many years.
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re: A Beautiful stamp !
Richard, 2:1 seems about right for where I'm headed--realistically around 50% complete at most. Ten binders for Parts I-V. Hard to believe, but for those thin double-sided early Scott pages, a stamp on either side and two folded hinges is likely more than 2x page thickness. Add in glassine interleaves, and it may well take 3:1 or 4:1 to house a 100% full International album. That would be 15 to 20 binders!
Phil, I'm starting down that path now as well. I've come into about a dozen Scott Specialty albums recently and am at odds as to how to deal with the overlap. Common sense would tell me to remove the pages from the Internationals and collect those dozen or so countries only in the Speciality albums. But stamp collecting, common sense, and me don't fit together in the same sentence.
So, for now, I'm leaving the Internationals as they are for those countries and building them out in the Specialty albums. Fortunately nothing too valuable yet. At some point, I'll probably make scans of stamps above a certain CV and put those scans in the International. Or, as one collector did, put a stamp-sized note in some of the spaces that says, "see other album" or something to that effect.
-Steve
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