The famous stamp collector Josiah Lilly said that there were 100,000 postage stamps he wanted for his collection and he succeeded in acquiring 77,000. My considerably easier target is 35,000 of the more common stamps from 1840-1940 contained in the Scott Blue International Album Volume 1. This blog will record my progress, provide general information about Classic era philately and hopefully encourage other "Blue" collectors.
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Blog "On Hold"
You may have noticed the decreased frequency of posts since last year. This is a result of some family-related matters including selling a house that I am dealing with. These will be resolved by later this year and I look forward to being more active at that time. I will certainly continue to post anything I see of major importance to Blue Volume One collectors, but won't be doing any special projects such as the recent one on collating Volume One and Two.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
April 1st Breaking News: Scott Pledges To Make their Classic Specialized Catalogue Just as Good as their Blue International Volume One Album
In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of the Blue International Album, Scott announced today that it will “dumb down” their flagship Classics catalog to make it mesh more closely with their flag-dingie world album.
“We are constantly being asked by collectors,” said Scott officials, “why our Classic Catalogue improves every year while the International Volume One continues to perpetuate mistakes and inconsistencies that have been in the album for decades. Well ask no more.”
Scott plans to reduce the disparity in quality between the catalog and the album by making the following changes:
1) all stamps not in the International Volume One will be eliminated from the catalog so as not to confuse collectors;
2) to compensate, catalog listings will be modified or invented to create stamps that match every space in the album, even when no actual stamp exists;
3) some correct stamp illustrations in the catalog will be replaced by incorrect ones or put in several different places;
4) stamps appearing more than once in the album will now be listed more than once in the catalog;
5) descriptions belonging to one stamp will be swapped with another a few dozen times to keep collectors on their toes;
6) as the years printed in the album often don’t match the catalog, dates for stamp sets will be adjusted randomly a year/decade or two so that nothing matches anything;
7) and in a special homage, the entire catalog listings for Syria will be reduced to a single stamp.
The editors acknowledged that collectors would no doubt prefer them to bring the Scott International Volume One up to the level of the catalog rather than vice versa, but they took a vote and agreed that “money talks.”
“We are constantly being asked by collectors,” said Scott officials, “why our Classic Catalogue improves every year while the International Volume One continues to perpetuate mistakes and inconsistencies that have been in the album for decades. Well ask no more.”
Scott plans to reduce the disparity in quality between the catalog and the album by making the following changes:
1) all stamps not in the International Volume One will be eliminated from the catalog so as not to confuse collectors;
2) to compensate, catalog listings will be modified or invented to create stamps that match every space in the album, even when no actual stamp exists;
3) some correct stamp illustrations in the catalog will be replaced by incorrect ones or put in several different places;
4) stamps appearing more than once in the album will now be listed more than once in the catalog;
5) descriptions belonging to one stamp will be swapped with another a few dozen times to keep collectors on their toes;
6) as the years printed in the album often don’t match the catalog, dates for stamp sets will be adjusted randomly a year/decade or two so that nothing matches anything;
7) and in a special homage, the entire catalog listings for Syria will be reduced to a single stamp.
The editors acknowledged that collectors would no doubt prefer them to bring the Scott International Volume One up to the level of the catalog rather than vice versa, but they took a vote and agreed that “money talks.”
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