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Welcome to my stamp album! Here, you will find over 6200 images of the 753 pages and the individual stamps in my U.S. stamp collection. Every page you see here is in one of my seven stamp albums. Every page is custom-made and hand-mounted. I've tried to design this site so that navigating it is like paging through my actual albums. Use the menu above to select an album, or use the Scott search button to jump to a specific issue. And clicking on an individual stamp displays an enlarged image of that stamp (for singles and pairs only).

Current Completeness Level: My album is current through 2006. Almost all of the numbered 2007 issues are present.

What's New

[Updated 1/08/08] Happy New Year! I apologize for the long absence, but I was involved in a big (non-stamp) project for the last six months or so. It's finally over, so I've got a big 2007 update, including the Alpine Tundra issues, and most of the remaining 2007 issues. I'm still missing the latest American Flag issues and half of the Christmas Knits issues. Those won't be updated until early February, when I can pick up the rest of the issues that I'm missing. I'll probably do another minor (unmentioned) update in a week or so to correct a few errors that have been reported by you folks.

[Updated 7/30/07] More 2007 issues - the Air Force One, Marine One, and Lighthouse issues, the Silver Heart issues, the pollination booklet panes (but not the singles or blocks), and the distinguised Americans issues. I also fixed a couple of errors in the last update (thanks to Phil, Brett, and Frank for pointing out the errors). I also made some improvements to the Denomination Guides - many years were not showing up in the listings, there were mistakes in some listings (there probably are many more I haven't found yet), and some demonations were goofy ("$2.900"). And I added a bunch of Showgard listings. At this point, I've got the Showgard sizes listed for 75% of the issues in my album.

[Updated 7/15/07] Big update. I added most of the new 2007 issues which have been assigned numbers. The exceptions are the new American Design issues, which I'm not updating because there's another coil issue of them coming out in a week. I also added my new purchases from WESTPEX - a decent 339, a 546 which isn't up to my standards, but which is probably as good as I can hope for that issue, and a C14.

One of the big challenges with this update is identifying the singles from the new forever stamps. I found the best identifier to be the word "forever" itself - the Avery version is quite bold, the Ashton Potter version is less bold, and the Sennett version is fairly faint.

I also fixed a number of errors that various people reported (and thanks to everyone who reported stuff).

[Updated 2/4/07] All 2006 issues are now online. The final additions include

And the rest. I also fixed a couple of errors reported by various people (thanks!), and I (finally!) picked up a 499e booklet pane.

[Updated 12/12/06] No update, just two comments. I am currently unable to send mail to Comcast or AOL accounts, due to some DNS problems that cause those two to reject my mail as spam. So if you're on one of those two, and you think I'm ignoring you, I'm not - I just can't reply.

I'm working on the remaining 2006 issues. I've designed the pages, and it's a matter of mounting and scanning them. I've got some time conflicts right now, with a kitchen remodel and a pretty bad work load. They'll be out by the end of the year for sure, and sooner if I can.

[Updated 10/09/06] A bunch of new issues. I picked up a nice 329 and a good 447 line pair from the Frohnen and Mann sales. I've also added the new Liberty and Flag issues, DC Comics Super Heroes, American Motorcycles, Gee's Bend Quilts, and the updated American Clock coils. I also corrected problems with the Amish Quilt and National Defense issues (and thanks to Gene and Johnny for pointing them out).

There won't be more updates until mid-November when I can pick up the Christmas singles, or until Scott assigns numbers to the new Eid and Hanukkah issues, whichever happens first. The Baseball sluggers won't appear until then either, since those two will go on the same page as them.

[Updated 7/25/06] More new issues - the Washington 2006 souvenir sheet, Judy Garland, Ronald Reagan, and Happy Birthday. Wow, every new issue which has been assigned a Scott number is now online, and I've got nothing left unmounted. Weird.

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