I collect Russia to 1985 and since there are so many stamps I bought a new Minkus album for 1972 - 1985. I finally found the last stamp I needed to finish this part of my collection. I actually am almost complete back to 1960, I just have a couple souvenir sheets to reach this date. The reason I say "sort of" is because I put my Russia BOB at the end of that album and that will probably never be finished!! Anyway, going back to the beginning of Russia, excluding a few weird varieties, I am only missing 141 stamps and some of those are unaffordable. Actually after 1930 there are only a couple unaffordable items, one of them is the first souvenir sheet which lists for about $25 000 - way out of my league!

 
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re: Finally finished an album, sort of!

The number of stamps being released by some of these countries is phenomenal - that's why all my areas have cutoffs. I bet there are some issues where none of them see an envelope except for first day covers. I read of someone who collects World to the current date and needs a new Scott's album every year. Imagine the number of stamps he would have at the end of every year when the year sets start to arrive!! I still get the Canada sets even though my cut off is 1988. Even poor old Canada issues a lot of Stamps.
I just checked my latest Scott's and Russia issued less than 100 regular stamps in 2013. I'm very surprised, maybe they are cutting back.

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