Phillip Tellick was certified by Guinness World Records this morning as the 1000th person to complete a Scott International Volume One this year.
As a consequence, Bob--proprietor of the moribund Filling Spaces blog--says that he may stop tracking completed Big Blues. He went on to explain: "Filling the album is obviously no longer a challenge. I wouldn't be surprised to find someone's pet wombat has accomplished the feat." (As Bob's own Big Blue is barely 70% full, it is possible that he is out searching for a stamp collecting wombat at this very moment.)
[Coincidentally and this part is not made up, Guinness recently awarded a world record for largest stamp collection: 400 million. My guess is the organization isn't clear about the difference between collection and accumulation.]
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.
2 comments:
Keep at it. It should be a point of pride how your album must appear to be bursting at 60+ percent full.
Thanks for the post Bob. Always enjoy your perspective (and your humor). !!
Filling BB is truly a challenge, and I admire Bud's and Dilip's accomplishment even more.
These days, I try to obtain about 50 stamps per month that I don't yet have for my classical era collection. And of those, I'm lucky if 10 of them have spaces in Big Blue. !!
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