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To start this thread off I'm showing Iceland today. Shown are the first page and a few more of the earliest pages. This collection got as far as I could go in reasonably completing it several years ago. I ended up selling many of the more valuable early ones.
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Very nice. Thanks for starting a new thread
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I'm always surprised at how 'modern' some classic stamps appear. The Sigurdsson cameos always struck me as having an almost '60s feel.
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For today another beautiful French colony from Africa; Upper Senegal and Niger. The first set is probably my favorite issue used in several of the colonies. The first set of Postage Due are also some of the best
Shown are the only 3 pages from the colony
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For today the first 3 pages of the Faroe Islands.
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Very impressed with your Iceland pages. Alas, I don't think I will ever be able to afford the prir overprints.
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For today the Portuguese colony of Macao. Yesterday I got in a bidding war for the first set. It was complete and cataloged for close to $1,500. I'm regretting that I did not keep going because I'm pretty sure the other guy would have quit pretty soon. I Rather doubt I will see another one where I could win at a price anywhere near that one did.
Shown are 3 of the first 4 pages. 
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I posted this country yesterday but for some reason it has disapeared, so I will try again.
I's the British colony of British Honduras. As with many of my British colonies it has not been worked much so is rather spotty but still probably worth showing.
Shown are the first two pages and another latter one.
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The country for today is Turkey. I spent sometime working on Turkey last year adding many stamps and new pages. I have a bit to do in the 1950's before I can continue scanning and updating the site up into the 90's which are near complete.
Shown are the first three pages and a couple later ones.
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Thank you for sharing, sir. I love seeing this kind of thing.
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Nate, Thanks! This is the last thread I'm showing for regular issues of the world. There are 11 previous threads showing mostly the first pages of, well over, 200 countries.
They can be found under "show topics/worldwide"
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Going along with Turkey, Hatay are the pages for today.
Shown are my first two pages. I'll be printing up pages for these when I finish up newer Turkish pages.
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I'm having a problem posting. A couple times in the last 9 days I found that two of my posts had been dropped/disappeared? I always check a post after I make it. These posts were showing up but vanished sometime afterwards
The last lost post should have been for Guam......So here it tis!
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No one deleted it. Sure you didn't click on Preview and then not submit it? I've done that before.
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Michael, I never thought that someone would have deleted it. Just wondered if there was another known reason or if it had happened to anyone else. After making over 200 posts on the "page of the day" threads, I've never noticed it happening before.
Received a couple of auction lots today so I thought I'd show them. The first is the one and only Semi Postal set from Mozambique. Issued in 1920, I've always thought it was quite nifty but only had one of them before now.
The second is a 1947 semi postal sheet from Monaco featuring Prince Louis II
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Today another French colony; Wallis and Futuna
Shown are 3 of the 1st four pages.
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A post to bring this thread back onto the last 30 list.
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Thanks Mike.
For today the British Colony of Ceylon. A fairly tough country to collect and my collection shows that and consequently needs much work. In fact it borders on what I feel is worth showing as will be the rest of the countries I show to finish off the thread.
Shown are the first page plus a few others.
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Today another French colony; Wallis and Futuna
Shown are 3 of the 1st four pages."
Mitch, outstanding!
I am so jealous..lol
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Ralph, They are very pretty pages as are mot of the colonies. They are not all that expensive but you really need to get them in complete sets. I like getting complete sets like this from auction lots more pages the better. Otherwise paying a dealer top dollar will start to get expensive. Most of the colonies of the world are much more difficult than their parent country to collect. Most collections before 1940 are pretty spotty because the stamps are just that more difficult to find. My French is pretty good but I haven't worked on it for twenty years or so. I've been working on Portuguese colonies for the last couple years, it looking pretty good in many places but their are still many many I need, cheap to pricey.
Today another spotty Portuguese colony; Horta>
Horta is part of the Azores who had their own stamps for while.
I've been bidding on the few I need for years and I almost always lose cuz I'm just to cheap. If you are going to collect this colony you might as well buy it complete as it only catalogs for $185 used and $305 mint.
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Today another French colony, this one from South America; French Guiana
Shown are the first few pages.
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The showing for the day is the British Colony of Pitcairn Islands. Possibly the least populated of any colony from any country with a population of around 60.
Shown are the first three pages.
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Today another Pacific Island; Hawaii. One of the most popular collecting areas, unfortunately there is only so far you can go.
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Gorgeous stamps. Beautiful centering. Selected with care.
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"One of the most popular collecting areas, unfortunately there is only so far you can go. "
Well, looks like you went pretty far, those are very choice stamps indeed! the first four stamps in particular. Impressive.
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When I took up collecting again in 1988 Chinese stamps were starting to take off. While other catalog values for most countries were tanking, China was headed the other way.
I decided that I would put China on the back burner until the Chinese market weakend.
Unfortunately it never did and I have spent very little time trying to build on that collection. Most of the stamps I have in my China collection are stamps that I collected when I was a kid.
Shown are a few selected pages.
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For today probably the most remote area for collecting; French Antartic.
Shown are the first and a few other pages.
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For today something different.
My goal is to get as close to 99% of completion for any country of the world. 100% completion is impossible for many countries so I need settle for the next best option 99%
I have need lists for most countries and I consider them my most important collecting tool in reaching my goal. In addition I keep percentages of completion with my need lists so that I can see how close I am to my goal. Below is a list of completions for many countries.
Completion percentages of major countries for regular issues unless otherwise noted. Major numbers
U.S. 98% thru 1990, 91% 19th century
Canada 98.7% thru 1990
Egypt 97.4% thru 1970
India 98.9% thru 1974
Australia 95.4% thru 1986
Israel Complete thru 1992
Western Europe/Scandanavia
Austria Regular issues 99.6% , Semi Postals 99.2% thru 1986
Belgium 100% thru 1970, Semi Postals 98% thru 1976
Berlin 100% complete
Denmark 98.2% thru 1982
Finland 96% thru 1962
France 99.3%, semis 98.6% thru 1977
Germany 99.8% thru 1997, Semis 99.6% thru 1988
Great Britain 97.3% thru 1999
Greece 98% thru 1976
Greenland 99% thru 1980
Italy 99.7% thru 1980, Air 99% thru1973
Liechtenstein 97.6% thru 1977
Luxembourg 99.2% , semis 97.6% thru 1984
Monaco 100%, semis 90% thru 1963
Netherlands 99.3%, semis 99.2% thru 1987
Norway 98.3% thru 1982
Portugal 99.7%, BOB 92% thru 1982
Sweden 96.6% thru 1982
Switzerland 97.5%, semis 99% thru 1978
Vatican City 99.6% thru 1979
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria 99.5% thru 1940
Czechoslovakia 98.7% thru 1950
DDr 98.5% thru 1982
Hungary 100%, semis 100% thru 1949
Latvia 99.7% thru 1940
Poland 96.8% thru 1954
Romania 97.8% thru 1952
Russia 99.4% thru 1990
Croatia 99% thru 1945
Latin America
Argentina 97.4% thru 1969
Bolivia 98.3% thru 1960
Brazil 99% thru 1980
Chile 98.55 thru 1972
Colombia 89.3% thru 1962
Costa Rica 95% thru 1983
Guatemala 99.3% thru 1973
Paraguay 94.7 thru1970
Peru 94.5% thru 1970
Uruguay 97.3% thru 1970
Venezuela 99% thru 1970
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For today another Portuguese colony; St. Thomas and Prince
Shown are the first three pages
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"My goal is to get as close to 99% of completion for any country of the world. 100% completion is impossible for many countries so I need settle for the next best option 99%
I have need lists for most countries and I consider them my most important collecting tool in reaching my goal. In addition I keep percentages of completion with my need lists so that I can see how close I am to my goal. Below is a list of completions for many countries."
Always impressive but at the other end of the spectrum, where are you most in need?
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Good question Chris, as impressive as you collection is I also am curious where the needs really are.
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Antonius, I note with interest that your St. Thomas and Prince Islands (Portugese) stamps of 1895 depicting King Carlos are a straight up match for the Nyassa stamps of 1898 (Portugese as well) stamps. Instead of overprinted with Nyassa, overprinted with St. Thomas et Principe). Was this the norm for all the Portugese colonies?
Just started collecting Africa colonies so this is a pertinent set of stamps to see. Great fun.
Cheers!
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rrr, jered, that's not an easy question to answer. I don't collect anything past year 2000 except U.S which my father is collecting for me. Until recently I did not collect many countries past 1977 but have in recent years have expanded most of Europe and some others to 2000.
I do not collect post independent Africa or Dunes. With the exception of San Marino and Spain my Western Europe is nearly complete as is Latin America except for Honduras and Nicaragua.
Countries that need most amount of work are U.S B.O.B., 19th century Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and early British colonies. Thailand, China, Indian States, Turkey. Iran and Iraq
Wine,Yes that is pretty much the way with Portuguese colony stamps. Many of the colonies first used the early issues of Portugal with overprints of the colony. There were also stamps made just for the colonies. many of which resembled the stamps of Portugal. These were either inscribed or overprinted or both with the specific colonies name.
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For today the British colony of Nigeria.
Shown are the 1st 3rd and 4th pages.
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"The showing for the day is the British Colony of Pitcairn Islands. Possibly the least populated of any colony from any country with a population of around 60."
While one of the least populated. It isn't the least. The British Indian Ocean Territory is the least populated colony. It issues plenty of stamps for a permanent population total of 0.
Interesting that you are missing that one 1961 set from Pitcairn Islands. It took me a long time to find a mnh example of that set. I got it last year, but those spaces had been empty in my album as well.
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There is a MNH set of 1961 issue for sale on Stamps.org.
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Of course there are plenty of them on sale now...after I spent all that time looking for a set! 
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Showing today, the United Kingdom of Libia
Shown are the first three pages:
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Anyone know why the pages are headed as Libia wheras the stamps and the country was Libya. I appreciate that the first spelling is from the Italian but by the time 1952 came along the country was The United Kingdom of Libya.
Were the pages USA produced and a retaliation for the Barbary wars? 
Think my dad was there at some time during the 1940's maybe that's the problem.
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Spellings of country names have changed over the years.
old Libia = now Libya
old Jugoslavia = now Yugoslavia
Names used for countries have also been replaced with new names.
old Upper Volta = new Burkina Faso
old Madagascar (French) = new Malagasy Republic
Scott made the changes during the 1970s and 1980s. Just a reflection of post-colonial-era countries. Of course Scott didn't do this with all the countries in similar situations. Just more inconsistencies.
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My 2009 Scott lists Madagascar under "Malagasy Republic" despite that name being well out of date even then.
Does Scott still do this or does it now use "Madagascar" again?
I realise I'm getting out of date too!
I bought my copy of Scott when I joined StampWants so I could see what my new US colleagues were talking about. Time flies.
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Scott uses Madagascar only for the British Consular Mail.
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Thanks Michael!
I'd forgotten about the Consular Mail. They are magnificent stamps particularly when you see a number of them together.
I had a few a few of them at one time but that was many years ago.
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Going backwards from yesterday and showing the Italian (first) issues for Libia/Libya.
Shown are the first two regular issue pages and the first semi postal page, which is quite attractive.
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Mitch Libya 1952 so hard to come by! Impressed even with all the holes.
Why is Scott 155 so hard to find?
Nice work. Libya is giving me a lot of trouble in the early years.
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RRR, Sorry but I cannot be of much help when it comes to most of the Mideast. Although some of my countries are starting to look pretty decent I have never really focused on any of them for any length of time. I've had those Libia stamps for quite some time but cannot remember where or when I got them. The No. 155 relative to the other low values of the set is 6 times higher. That isn't much but it should reflect at least how much more difficult it is to find. It also just could be another one of those stamps where Scott is way off in assigning value to them.
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Today I'm filling in the gap of the two Libia/Libya issues I've already shown. Today for the period after the Italian and before Kingdom. The French possession after world War II and before Kingdom. Note, the stamps are inscribed "Fezzan"
1st two regular issues pages and 1st Semi postal and airmail page shown.
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Mitch, I didn't collect worldwide past my high school years. I really enjoy your sharing all of this material from your collection. Lots of fantastic stamps I would never otherwise see! Thanks for taking the time to do this!
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Keesindy, I've always just like to look at stamps. It use to be difficult to find people who collected and were wanting to share. That prompted one of the main reasons for starting my site. I thought it would also be helpful for collectors to see new countries they would be interested in collecting and help expand the hobby. I hope this showing has encouraged many of the readers to collect something new.
I hope everyone is aware that they can view most any country they want any time by simply visiting my Website. If you haven't yet I hope you will bookmark now: Antonius-Ra.com
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Yes, Mitch, I've visited your site multiple times and continue to be amazed by what you've accomplished.
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Time to start a new thread. This will probably be the last thread of World wide regular issues and then I'll move on to WW Semi Postals and Airmails.
To start this thread off I'm showing Iceland today. Shown are the first page and a few more of the earliest pages. This collection got as far as I could go in reasonably completing it several years ago. I ended up selling many of the more valuable early ones.
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Very nice. Thanks for starting a new thread
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I'm always surprised at how 'modern' some classic stamps appear. The Sigurdsson cameos always struck me as having an almost '60s feel.
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For today another beautiful French colony from Africa; Upper Senegal and Niger. The first set is probably my favorite issue used in several of the colonies. The first set of Postage Due are also some of the best
Shown are the only 3 pages from the colony
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For today the first 3 pages of the Faroe Islands.
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Very impressed with your Iceland pages. Alas, I don't think I will ever be able to afford the prir overprints.
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For today the Portuguese colony of Macao. Yesterday I got in a bidding war for the first set. It was complete and cataloged for close to $1,500. I'm regretting that I did not keep going because I'm pretty sure the other guy would have quit pretty soon. I Rather doubt I will see another one where I could win at a price anywhere near that one did.
Shown are 3 of the first 4 pages.
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I posted this country yesterday but for some reason it has disapeared, so I will try again.
I's the British colony of British Honduras. As with many of my British colonies it has not been worked much so is rather spotty but still probably worth showing.
Shown are the first two pages and another latter one.
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The country for today is Turkey. I spent sometime working on Turkey last year adding many stamps and new pages. I have a bit to do in the 1950's before I can continue scanning and updating the site up into the 90's which are near complete.
Shown are the first three pages and a couple later ones.
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Thank you for sharing, sir. I love seeing this kind of thing.
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Nate, Thanks! This is the last thread I'm showing for regular issues of the world. There are 11 previous threads showing mostly the first pages of, well over, 200 countries.
They can be found under "show topics/worldwide"
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Going along with Turkey, Hatay are the pages for today.
Shown are my first two pages. I'll be printing up pages for these when I finish up newer Turkish pages.
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I'm having a problem posting. A couple times in the last 9 days I found that two of my posts had been dropped/disappeared? I always check a post after I make it. These posts were showing up but vanished sometime afterwards
The last lost post should have been for Guam......So here it tis!
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No one deleted it. Sure you didn't click on Preview and then not submit it? I've done that before.
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Michael, I never thought that someone would have deleted it. Just wondered if there was another known reason or if it had happened to anyone else. After making over 200 posts on the "page of the day" threads, I've never noticed it happening before.
Received a couple of auction lots today so I thought I'd show them. The first is the one and only Semi Postal set from Mozambique. Issued in 1920, I've always thought it was quite nifty but only had one of them before now.
The second is a 1947 semi postal sheet from Monaco featuring Prince Louis II
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Today another French colony; Wallis and Futuna
Shown are 3 of the 1st four pages.
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A post to bring this thread back onto the last 30 list.
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Thanks Mike.
For today the British Colony of Ceylon. A fairly tough country to collect and my collection shows that and consequently needs much work. In fact it borders on what I feel is worth showing as will be the rest of the countries I show to finish off the thread.
Shown are the first page plus a few others.
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Today another French colony; Wallis and Futuna
Shown are 3 of the 1st four pages."
Mitch, outstanding!
I am so jealous..lol
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Ralph, They are very pretty pages as are mot of the colonies. They are not all that expensive but you really need to get them in complete sets. I like getting complete sets like this from auction lots more pages the better. Otherwise paying a dealer top dollar will start to get expensive. Most of the colonies of the world are much more difficult than their parent country to collect. Most collections before 1940 are pretty spotty because the stamps are just that more difficult to find. My French is pretty good but I haven't worked on it for twenty years or so. I've been working on Portuguese colonies for the last couple years, it looking pretty good in many places but their are still many many I need, cheap to pricey.
Today another spotty Portuguese colony; Horta>
Horta is part of the Azores who had their own stamps for while.
I've been bidding on the few I need for years and I almost always lose cuz I'm just to cheap. If you are going to collect this colony you might as well buy it complete as it only catalogs for $185 used and $305 mint.
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Today another French colony, this one from South America; French Guiana
Shown are the first few pages.
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The showing for the day is the British Colony of Pitcairn Islands. Possibly the least populated of any colony from any country with a population of around 60.
Shown are the first three pages.
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Today another Pacific Island; Hawaii. One of the most popular collecting areas, unfortunately there is only so far you can go.
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Gorgeous stamps. Beautiful centering. Selected with care.
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"One of the most popular collecting areas, unfortunately there is only so far you can go. "
Well, looks like you went pretty far, those are very choice stamps indeed! the first four stamps in particular. Impressive.
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When I took up collecting again in 1988 Chinese stamps were starting to take off. While other catalog values for most countries were tanking, China was headed the other way.
I decided that I would put China on the back burner until the Chinese market weakend.
Unfortunately it never did and I have spent very little time trying to build on that collection. Most of the stamps I have in my China collection are stamps that I collected when I was a kid.
Shown are a few selected pages.
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For today probably the most remote area for collecting; French Antartic.
Shown are the first and a few other pages.
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For today something different.
My goal is to get as close to 99% of completion for any country of the world. 100% completion is impossible for many countries so I need settle for the next best option 99%
I have need lists for most countries and I consider them my most important collecting tool in reaching my goal. In addition I keep percentages of completion with my need lists so that I can see how close I am to my goal. Below is a list of completions for many countries.
Completion percentages of major countries for regular issues unless otherwise noted. Major numbers
U.S. 98% thru 1990, 91% 19th century
Canada 98.7% thru 1990
Egypt 97.4% thru 1970
India 98.9% thru 1974
Australia 95.4% thru 1986
Israel Complete thru 1992
Western Europe/Scandanavia
Austria Regular issues 99.6% , Semi Postals 99.2% thru 1986
Belgium 100% thru 1970, Semi Postals 98% thru 1976
Berlin 100% complete
Denmark 98.2% thru 1982
Finland 96% thru 1962
France 99.3%, semis 98.6% thru 1977
Germany 99.8% thru 1997, Semis 99.6% thru 1988
Great Britain 97.3% thru 1999
Greece 98% thru 1976
Greenland 99% thru 1980
Italy 99.7% thru 1980, Air 99% thru1973
Liechtenstein 97.6% thru 1977
Luxembourg 99.2% , semis 97.6% thru 1984
Monaco 100%, semis 90% thru 1963
Netherlands 99.3%, semis 99.2% thru 1987
Norway 98.3% thru 1982
Portugal 99.7%, BOB 92% thru 1982
Sweden 96.6% thru 1982
Switzerland 97.5%, semis 99% thru 1978
Vatican City 99.6% thru 1979
Eastern Europe
Bulgaria 99.5% thru 1940
Czechoslovakia 98.7% thru 1950
DDr 98.5% thru 1982
Hungary 100%, semis 100% thru 1949
Latvia 99.7% thru 1940
Poland 96.8% thru 1954
Romania 97.8% thru 1952
Russia 99.4% thru 1990
Croatia 99% thru 1945
Latin America
Argentina 97.4% thru 1969
Bolivia 98.3% thru 1960
Brazil 99% thru 1980
Chile 98.55 thru 1972
Colombia 89.3% thru 1962
Costa Rica 95% thru 1983
Guatemala 99.3% thru 1973
Paraguay 94.7 thru1970
Peru 94.5% thru 1970
Uruguay 97.3% thru 1970
Venezuela 99% thru 1970
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For today another Portuguese colony; St. Thomas and Prince
Shown are the first three pages
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"My goal is to get as close to 99% of completion for any country of the world. 100% completion is impossible for many countries so I need settle for the next best option 99%
I have need lists for most countries and I consider them my most important collecting tool in reaching my goal. In addition I keep percentages of completion with my need lists so that I can see how close I am to my goal. Below is a list of completions for many countries."
Always impressive but at the other end of the spectrum, where are you most in need?
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Good question Chris, as impressive as you collection is I also am curious where the needs really are.
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Antonius, I note with interest that your St. Thomas and Prince Islands (Portugese) stamps of 1895 depicting King Carlos are a straight up match for the Nyassa stamps of 1898 (Portugese as well) stamps. Instead of overprinted with Nyassa, overprinted with St. Thomas et Principe). Was this the norm for all the Portugese colonies?
Just started collecting Africa colonies so this is a pertinent set of stamps to see. Great fun.
Cheers!
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rrr, jered, that's not an easy question to answer. I don't collect anything past year 2000 except U.S which my father is collecting for me. Until recently I did not collect many countries past 1977 but have in recent years have expanded most of Europe and some others to 2000.
I do not collect post independent Africa or Dunes. With the exception of San Marino and Spain my Western Europe is nearly complete as is Latin America except for Honduras and Nicaragua.
Countries that need most amount of work are U.S B.O.B., 19th century Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and early British colonies. Thailand, China, Indian States, Turkey. Iran and Iraq
Wine,Yes that is pretty much the way with Portuguese colony stamps. Many of the colonies first used the early issues of Portugal with overprints of the colony. There were also stamps made just for the colonies. many of which resembled the stamps of Portugal. These were either inscribed or overprinted or both with the specific colonies name.
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For today the British colony of Nigeria.
Shown are the 1st 3rd and 4th pages.
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"The showing for the day is the British Colony of Pitcairn Islands. Possibly the least populated of any colony from any country with a population of around 60."
While one of the least populated. It isn't the least. The British Indian Ocean Territory is the least populated colony. It issues plenty of stamps for a permanent population total of 0.
Interesting that you are missing that one 1961 set from Pitcairn Islands. It took me a long time to find a mnh example of that set. I got it last year, but those spaces had been empty in my album as well.
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There is a MNH set of 1961 issue for sale on Stamps.org.
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Of course there are plenty of them on sale now...after I spent all that time looking for a set!
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Showing today, the United Kingdom of Libia
Shown are the first three pages:
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Anyone know why the pages are headed as Libia wheras the stamps and the country was Libya. I appreciate that the first spelling is from the Italian but by the time 1952 came along the country was The United Kingdom of Libya.
Were the pages USA produced and a retaliation for the Barbary wars?
Think my dad was there at some time during the 1940's maybe that's the problem.
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Spellings of country names have changed over the years.
old Libia = now Libya
old Jugoslavia = now Yugoslavia
Names used for countries have also been replaced with new names.
old Upper Volta = new Burkina Faso
old Madagascar (French) = new Malagasy Republic
Scott made the changes during the 1970s and 1980s. Just a reflection of post-colonial-era countries. Of course Scott didn't do this with all the countries in similar situations. Just more inconsistencies.
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My 2009 Scott lists Madagascar under "Malagasy Republic" despite that name being well out of date even then.
Does Scott still do this or does it now use "Madagascar" again?
I realise I'm getting out of date too!
I bought my copy of Scott when I joined StampWants so I could see what my new US colleagues were talking about. Time flies.
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06:54:06pm
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Scott uses Madagascar only for the British Consular Mail.
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Thanks Michael!
I'd forgotten about the Consular Mail. They are magnificent stamps particularly when you see a number of them together.
I had a few a few of them at one time but that was many years ago.
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Going backwards from yesterday and showing the Italian (first) issues for Libia/Libya.
Shown are the first two regular issue pages and the first semi postal page, which is quite attractive.
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Mitch Libya 1952 so hard to come by! Impressed even with all the holes.
Why is Scott 155 so hard to find?
Nice work. Libya is giving me a lot of trouble in the early years.
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RRR, Sorry but I cannot be of much help when it comes to most of the Mideast. Although some of my countries are starting to look pretty decent I have never really focused on any of them for any length of time. I've had those Libia stamps for quite some time but cannot remember where or when I got them. The No. 155 relative to the other low values of the set is 6 times higher. That isn't much but it should reflect at least how much more difficult it is to find. It also just could be another one of those stamps where Scott is way off in assigning value to them.
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Today I'm filling in the gap of the two Libia/Libya issues I've already shown. Today for the period after the Italian and before Kingdom. The French possession after world War II and before Kingdom. Note, the stamps are inscribed "Fezzan"
1st two regular issues pages and 1st Semi postal and airmail page shown.
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Mitch, I didn't collect worldwide past my high school years. I really enjoy your sharing all of this material from your collection. Lots of fantastic stamps I would never otherwise see! Thanks for taking the time to do this!
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Keesindy, I've always just like to look at stamps. It use to be difficult to find people who collected and were wanting to share. That prompted one of the main reasons for starting my site. I thought it would also be helpful for collectors to see new countries they would be interested in collecting and help expand the hobby. I hope this showing has encouraged many of the readers to collect something new.
I hope everyone is aware that they can view most any country they want any time by simply visiting my Website. If you haven't yet I hope you will bookmark now: Antonius-Ra.com
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Yes, Mitch, I've visited your site multiple times and continue to be amazed by what you've accomplished.
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