Scott International Junior Foreign Stamp Album China GB Classics Mixed Condition For Sale

One original, heavily worn Scott International Junior Postage Stamp Album with its existing foreign stamp collection and the loose 1936 German Olympic presentation sheet described below. The blue cover bears a handwritten “Foreign” label. The book, mounted material, collector annotations and surviving arrangement are offered together as one lot.

This album combines nineteenth-century classics with substantial early twentieth-century coverage. Its appeal is the breadth of the collection and the opportunity to examine older stamp designs, denominations, cancellations and the collector’s additions in their surviving album setting. Coverage is uneven: some countries are well represented, while others have scattered examples or many empty spaces. It is an incomplete general collection, with mixed condition throughout.

The printed framework organizes countries and historical territories by issue, period, design and denomination. Pencil annotations, additional stamps in margins, repeated designs and inserted material show how the collection grew beyond the supplied spaces. The additional material is not always placed under the correct issue heading. Printed placement and handwritten values should therefore be treated as collector notes, not expert identifications or current valuations.

- China: green 1-candarin and yellow 5-candarin Large Dragon-design examples, with a mauve 3-candarin Small Dragon nearby. These are different design families; this is not a complete three-value Large Dragon set. The green has an affected lower-left corner and irregular edges; the yellow has a heavy obscuring cancellation and close/irregular edges. Exact printing, paper, spacing and authenticity remain unverified.
- Great Britain: an imperforate Penny Black-type example with heavy cancellation and close/cut margins; later line-engraved material including an imperforate white-line 2d blue; and a Queen Victoria 5s rose, lettered AA, with strong cancellation and uneven perforations. No rare plate, paper or cancellation is claimed.
- Finland: nine early serpentine-roulette examples, including penni and kopek denominations. Several have shortened or missing roulette teeth, with varied cancellations and appearance. Differences in paper and roulette have not been comprehensively classified. Clipped teeth are faults, not evidence of an imperforate variety.
- Norway: an early imperforate 4-skilling arms-design example consistent with the first-issue family, with close margins and substantial cancellation. Exact printing, watermark and condition of the back have not been verified.
- Cape of Good Hope: two actual triangular examples, red 1d and green 1s design families, with close/irregular margins and visible faults. The green shows a conspicuous pale area. No woodblock or other scarce printing is claimed. Printed triangular illustrations elsewhere on the page are not additional stamps.
- France and German states: early Cérès/Napoléon material, Baden and other state issues, with later regular and special-purpose stamps. The blue French 25c Cérès placed in the early row is perforated; its position does not make it an 1849 imperforate issue. The orange 40c requires further classification before a specialized catalogue attribution. German-state material also includes marginal additions and some misfiling.
- Japan and Samoa: an orange Japanese Dragon-family example with a clipped upper-right corner, and an added row of eight Samoa Express-design stamps. Japanese denomination/printing and genuine versus facsimile status are unresolved; Samoa original-printing versus reprint status is unresolved. These are study material in an uncertified mixed collection, not a guarantee of original rare issues.

Other photographed areas include Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia and departmental issues, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Danzig, Denmark, Dutch Indies, Ecuador, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Salvador, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and Australian colonial material, among others. Country coverage and completeness vary. The collection includes postage stamps together with some postal-stationery cutouts, fiscal/revenue material and White Russia/Belarus Peasants designs prepared but not issued for postage. Not every mounted object is an adhesive postage stamp.

One loose presentation sheet bearing eight German sports stamps with Berlin Olympic cancellations dated 1 August 1936 is included with the album. The front and reverse photographs show the same sheet. It has pronounced folds/creases, toning, rough and torn edges, chips and missing edge pieces. The visible cancellation date does not establish when the family acquired it.

The seller confirms that this loose sheet is included with the album. Its heading refers to special German postal stamps for the XI Olympic Games in Berlin. Eight sports stamps are mounted on a printed presentation sheet, rather than forming one unseparated sheet of stamps. The visible Berlin Olympic cancellations read 1 August 1936, the opening day of the Games; this is an event-date connection, not a claim that the stamps were first issued that day.

The 1936 Berlin Olympics have significance beyond sport: the Nazi regime used the international event for propaganda while concealing its persecution and presenting a misleading image of a peaceful, welcoming Germany. The sheet brings together Olympic sporting imagery, postal commemoration and the state emblems of that period. It is offered as historical philatelic material.

Within this album, it preserves a different collecting format alongside the individually mounted country issues: an event-focused presentation retained with the Germany section. That association does not prove which family member acquired it or attended the Games. Its collector appeal lies in the eight-stamp display, dated cancellations and surviving context. The pronounced folds, tears, toning and missing edge pieces reduce condition value. No exceptional rarity, personal attendance provenance or independently established high monetary premium is claimed.

According to current custodian L.S., the wider family collection was maintained through G.F. approximately 1910–1940s, P.L.S. in the 1940s–1970s, J.J.S. around 1980–2025, and L.S. from around 2025. This is family-reported custody history. Individual stamps, handwriting and acquisition dates in this album have not been attributed to particular family members.

The mounted album complements the country-sorted packets and collecting notes preserved elsewhere in the wider holding: one arrangement displays material within an illustrated reference framework; another retains it in packets for sorting or storage. A direct transfer from a particular packet into this book, common authorship of notes, and the reasons individual countries were filled more heavily have not been established. Issue dates and cancellations date the stamps or their use, not their acquisition or mounting. Separately listed family material is not included in this sale.

The album is heavily worn and fragile. Faults include a failing spine/binding, frayed cover edges, loose or separating leaves, toned paper, tears, chipped or missing page-edge pieces, writing and marks. Stamp condition varies: damaged examples, close margins, missing or shortened perforations/roulette teeth, heavy cancellations and faded-looking material are included. Many stamps are cancelled; others appear uncancelled. Most backs have not been examined, so original gum, hinge remnants, adherence, hidden thins, repairs and other back faults are not comprehensively verified. No mint-never-hinged or all-sound claim is made.

Sold as the existing album, its mounted contents and the one Olympic sheet described above. Printed black-and-white album illustrations and empty spaces are not physical stamps. Repeated photographs and close-ups show the same objects and do not add quantity. No exact total stamp count, complete set, aggregate catalogue value, all-genuine status or guaranteed resale return is represented. Ungraded and uncertified.

The fragile book and loose leaves will be supported with rigid protective packing. Please examine the cover, binding, whole-page views and stamp details; the visible wear and identification limits are part of the description of this particular collection.