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WORLD STAMPS 1901–1920 — MASSIVE ANTIQUE SCOTT INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION!
AN EXTRAORDINARY OLD-TIME WORLDWIDE STAMP COLLECTION — A MONSTER-SIZED ANTIQUE ALBUM OVERFLOWING WITH CLASSIC STAMPS FROM ONE OF THE MOST FASCINATING PERIODS IN POSTAL HISTORY!
THIS IS WHAT THE GOLDEN AGE OF STAMP COLLECTING LOOKED LIKE!
Offered here is a magnificent, enormously thick Scott International Postage Stamp Album covering 1901–1920, containing an impressive old-time worldwide collection assembled across the countries, colonies, kingdoms, and empires of the early twentieth century.
And when we say this album is enormous, we mean it! The sheer thickness of this massive volume is remarkable. Its pages have expanded with the accumulated stamps and mounts of generations past, giving it that wonderful, almost bursting-at-the-seams appearance that collectors love to see in a substantial old collection.
A GREAT BIG ANTIQUE STAMP TREASURE CHEST — WITH THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD INSIDE!
Imagine opening an album and stepping back into the years between 1901 and 1920.
The great European monarchies still dominated the continent. Imperial China was approaching revolution. Colonial administrations governed distant corners of the globe. New countries were being born, old empires were collapsing, and the First World War was about to change the map forever.
Every one of those extraordinary events left its mark on the postage stamps of the period.
And this magnificent old album brings that entire fascinating era together in one place!
AN AMAZING SWEEP OF CLASSIC WORLDWIDE PHILATELY!
THE GREAT EUROPEAN EMPIRES! Beautiful engraved monarchs, imperial eagles, coats of arms, classic definitive series, commemoratives, wartime issues, and fascinating stamps from kingdoms and governments that would soon disappear forever.
THE BRITISH EMPIRE! A marvelous world of King Edward VII and King George V issues, colonial high denominations, sailing ships, exotic territories, watermark varieties, and beautifully engraved stamps from Britain's far-flung possessions.
IMPERIAL CHINA & THE FAR EAST! Early Chinese Imperial issues, fascinating revolutionary overprints, ornate dragons, ancient temples, exotic inscriptions, and the stamps of a region undergoing enormous political transformation.
AFRICA & THE COLONIAL WORLD! Gorgeous French, Belgian, British, and other colonial stamps featuring wildlife, tropical landscapes, native scenes, riverboats, explorers, and beautifully engraved pictorial designs.
THE MIDDLE EAST & CENTRAL ASIA! Fascinating native-design stamps, unusual alphabets, surcharges, early provisional issues, and the extraordinary postal history of distant kingdoms and changing governments.
THE MEDITERRANEAN & BALKANS! A particularly exciting field of early overprints, revolutionary issues, military occupations, provisional stamps, and fascinating short-lived postal administrations.
THE AMERICAS & CARIBBEAN! Classic Canadian issues, historic commemoratives, Latin American republics, colonial possessions, Canal Zone overprints, and the colorful postal history of the New World.
REMOTE ISLANDS, TERRITORIES & VANISHED COLONIES! The wonderful obscure places that make an old International collection so captivating — territories with unfamiliar names, colonial dependencies, distant outposts, and countries that no longer exist in the same form today.
And that is the real magic of a worldwide collection from this period. It is not simply a collection of postage stamps — it is an extraordinary panorama of a world that has vanished!
THE PHOTOGRAPHED PAGES ARE ABSOLUTELY FASCINATING!
Just a sampling of the collection reveals wonderful classic material from Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Belgium, British Guiana, Canada, Canal Zone, Ceylon, China, Belgian Congo, Crete, Cyprus, Dahomey, and more.
There are particularly interesting sections of early Albanian provisional and overprinted issues, Imperial Chinese stamps and revolutionary surcharges, British colonial higher denominations, classic Canadian commemoratives, Canal Zone issues, and attractive early African colonial pictorials.
The photographed pages show an impressive variety of classic stamps, including higher denominations, old cancellations, overprints, surcharges, handsome engraved designs, and numerous issues accompanied by handwritten catalog references.
AND REMEMBER — THESE PHOTOGRAPHS REPRESENT ONLY A SMALL PORTION OF THIS ENORMOUS ALBUM!
The album's worldwide scope extends far beyond the countries illustrated. Its great appeal is the opportunity to explore an entire era of classic worldwide stamps, country by country, page after page.
THE POTENTIAL CATALOG VALUE IS ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING ASPECTS!
Anyone who has worked with early worldwide stamps knows how quickly individual catalog values can accumulate.
A few dollars here, ten or twenty dollars there, higher denominations, desirable overprints, scarcer colonial issues, and occasional stamps cataloging for considerably more — multiply that across a substantial antique worldwide collection and the cumulative figures can become quite impressive!
JUST IMAGINE THE INDIVIDUAL RETAIL COST OF REBUILDING A COLLECTION LIKE THIS, STAMP BY STAMP!
The original collector clearly took cataloging seriously. Throughout the photographed pages are handwritten numbers, references, and valuations, providing a fascinating glimpse into the time and attention devoted to the collection.
We have not attempted a complete stamp-by-stamp identification or catalog valuation, and the handwritten figures are historical references rather than verified current values. Nevertheless, the combination of classic material, higher denominations, and enormous worldwide scope makes the potential cumulative catalog value a particularly intriguing aspect of this collection.
A COMPLETE MODERN CATALOGING OF AN ALBUM THIS SUBSTANTIAL WOULD BE A MAJOR UNDERTAKING — AND THE RESULT COULD BE QUITE AN EYE-OPENER!
A TRUE OLD-TIME COLLECTION WITH CHARACTER!
One of the most appealing things about this album is its unmistakable authenticity.
This is not a newly assembled collection placed into a modern binder. It is a grand old International album with beautifully printed country pages, ornate decorative borders, historical descriptions, original handwritten notations, and countless stamps mounted in the traditional manner.
The enormous thickness tells its own story.
The old binding has been reinforced over the years, and the album shows the wear and character of a volume that has been opened, studied, expanded, and enjoyed for a very long time.
It has the wonderful look and feel of a collection that somebody devoted countless hours to building.
Think of the years spent searching dealer stocks, examining approval books, studying catalogs, trading with other collectors, and carefully mounting each new acquisition in its proper place.
THIS IS OLD-FASHIONED PHILATELY AT ITS MOST ROMANTIC!
THE ULTIMATE WORLDWIDE STAMP TREASURE HUNT!
There is something especially exciting about acquiring an enormous old album like this intact.
Every turn of the page brings another country, another period of history, another group of fascinating stamps to examine.
One moment you are looking at the classic issues of Imperial China. The next you are exploring a remote British colony, an obscure Balkan provisional issue, or a beautifully engraved African pictorial.
For the serious collector, there are countless opportunities to study printings, watermarks, cancellations, shades, overprints, and varieties.
For the worldwide enthusiast, there is the sheer pleasure of exploring an extraordinary assortment of early stamps from across the globe.
For the dealer, there is a substantial body of classic material to examine and organize.
And for anyone who appreciates the history of stamp collecting itself, this massive antique album is a wonderful artifact from another era.
A COLLECTION LIKE THIS IS NOT SOMETHING YOU CAN FULLY APPRECIATE IN A HANDFUL OF PHOTOGRAPHS. IT IS SOMETHING YOU EXPLORE, STUDY, AND ENJOY OVER TIME!
A GRAND OLD ALBUM FROM AN EXTRAORDINARY AGE!
The years 1901–1920 encompass some of the most historically important and fascinating stamps ever issued.
The final years of great empires. The emergence of new republics. The golden age of colonial pictorials. The explosion of commemorative stamp collecting. The upheaval of the First World War. The birth of entirely new postal administrations.
All represented within the sweeping scope of this enormous antique International album.
MASSIVE SIZE! CLASSIC WORLDWIDE MATERIAL! FASCINATING OLD CATALOG NOTATIONS! HISTORIC OVERPRINTS! COLONIAL HIGH VALUES! BEAUTIFUL ENGRAVED STAMPS! AND AN INCREDIBLE AMOUNT OF OLD-TIME COLLECTING APPEAL!
This is exactly the sort of collection that makes you want to clear off a table, open the album, pull out the catalogs, and spend an entire weekend discovering what is inside.
A MAGNIFICENT OLD-TIME WORLDWIDE STAMP COLLECTION — OVER A CENTURY OF HISTORY PRESERVED IN ONE ENORMOUS ANTIQUE ALBUM!
IMPORTANT: YOU GET THE ACTUAL ALBUM AND EVERY STAMP AND ITEM SHOWN IN THE PICTURES AND VIDEO! THE PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEO SHOW THE ACTUAL COLLECTION YOU WILL RECEIVE — NOT STOCK PHOTOS OR REPRESENTATIVE MATERIAL. EVERYTHING IS BEING SOLD TOGETHER, INTACT, EXACTLY AS PICTURED!
A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF PHILATELIC HISTORY — AND ENJOY THE THRILL OF EXPLORING IT FOR YOURSELF!
