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Welcome to my stamp album! Here, you will find over 6300 images of the 776 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 2007. Almost all of the numbered 2008 issues are present. What's New[Updated 11/18/08] Not an update, but just some notes. I got my 2009 Scott Specialized, and I did a brief review of the changes and additions. I also attended the Santa Clara show to fill out some of my missing newer issues. There are a couple of variants that I'm having problems with, and I won't be able to get them for a while. First, there is a mottled variant of the 2008 Forever issues, 4127 (f and h, I think). I've only been able to locate the overall tagging variant, and nobody seems to have the mottled variant - many dealers weren't even aware it existed. When Vic Bove doesn't have something, I know it's going to take some time to locate. The other one, which was a total surprise to me, is a tagging variant of the 2007 Christmas Knit sheet stamps, 4207-4210 plus the block of four. Again, I don't have them, and it'll take me some time to locate. I have a small update pending, mostly correcting a couple of errors in formatting, but also including the missing American Design issues. Note that what I've currently got displayed as 3749A is actually 3749. Sorry about that, and that'll get fixed soon. [Updated 10/19/08] MAJOR UPDATE, at long last! Sorry for the very long delay, but it was a combination of two major complications. First, any rate change always wreaks havoc with keeping the site updated. A rate change always includes a bunch of non-denominated definitives in multiple formats right before the change, followed by a whole bunch of denominated versions of the same stamps, again in multiple formats, some time after the rate change. And it takes time for Scott to gather all of the information about the different formats, assign catalog numbers, then possibly re-assign the numbers once new variations are discovered. And right after that happened, I sold my home and bought a larger one nearby, which required me to pack up my possessions, professionally stage my home, wait for my new home to be finished being built, etc. So my life was mostly on hold from the end of April until the beginning of August, when I finally got to move in, followed by another month of no stamp stuff while I unpacked and generally got settled. And then, designing, mounting, and scanning 25 new pages, plus all of the individual stamp images, took about three weeks. The good news is that I now actually have my own stamp room. Am I just in stamp geek heaven, or what? Anyway, here are some of what you'll find in this update:
Plan on the next update being in a month or so, when I expect to post the Sand Dunes issues, Tail Fins, some of the missing recent issues, and whatever else Scott assigns numbers to between now and ther. I'm still trying to figure out the new variants and numbers for the Forever stamp reprints. [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). |
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