Thank you for a wonderful little treat! 😁 I don't think I have seen an SG album before, definitely not one this old. I love that they have the catalogue information on one side with the stamps on the other. All of my printed albums have been Harris, except for a Russia Minkus album that a friend gave me years ago.
Great find. These are classic albums, I'd love to find a set of them. They aren't your typical beginner albums. I'd definitely continue to use them. 🙂 Two notes: using mounts throughout these fastbound or permanent albums will cause the album to bulge distressingly. The mounts are too thick. The books were designed in the age of hinges. There are also 'Ideal' (I believe that's the name) albums for non-british stamps of the same era and a king George VI album to continue on. (your albums ended in 1936 as that was the end of King George V's reign) Really awesome find!
Interesting point @MarkDyck and I tend to agree with you. I inherited volume 1 and have purchased volume 2 so as to have the set. I have been buying quite a few stamps from various countries and for each one, irrespective of whether it is used or mint, have been putting in a black Hawid mount to preserve the condition of the stamp as much as possible. This has certainly resulted in the album bulging somewhat, although so far no damage done to it. More recently, with my focus moving towards Hong Kong and Falklands Islands, I am using the Lighthouse pre-printed albums, which are obviously designed not to bulge when full (not that I will ever fill them unless I have a lottery win !)
Very nice vintage albums but, yeah, impossible to even dream to get half way through it without having thousands of dollars to invest in them. Thanks for showing them nonetheless!
You got a bargain buying those albums with some extra fairly common stamps as the albums are in excellent condition. I would have to pay up to £300 in an auction for something similar to that although a bit less if the album was a little worn. You did well. You would have a lot of fun adding to it in the future as I have done myself in the last few years. The Federated Malay States had the $1 and $2 tiger high values which are nice stamps and I am surprised they were not removed as they are quite valuable and worth much more than the majority of stamps that were already cherry picked. Maybe they had fiscal cancels which reduces their value considerably. The Hong Kong QV early issues also looked interesting. A similar glory box with a starting price of £1 at auction sold for £1700 at an auction I attended a few years ago because it had a nice collection in the same albums as this without the hinge remainders on the pages though and a scattering of nice stamps throughout but still very sparse for most countries. I gave up bidding once it reached £900 as it got too high for me. I wished I could have bought it for the £1 I started the bidding off at. Haha 😛. I doubt whether 10 million pounds could complete the books you showed though as there are some very elusive stamps in the older issues costing at least £10,000 each to buy and some more than £100,000. The rarest stamps include the British Guiana 1c magenta, which Stanley Gibbons owns now having bought the only copy in the world for $8.3 million in 2021. Many other issues rarely ever come on to the market to buy as they may also be the only copy in the world or just a few copies exist of them. So the best one can hope to do is to complete some countries within the album that do not have major rarities within them provided you have many thousands of pounds to spend on doing so. I have 3 collections using these collections, a master collection plus duplicates and triplicates collections also to hold any swaps in a pleasing and rewarding fashion. Great Britain is my closest to completion but the last 10 stamps alone are valued at £400,000 so I will never get to complete it. I am just happy to try and get a few stamps on every page for most countries and aim for 25% completion for each country. I am nowhere near that although some major countries are easy to reach that target such as GB, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa which have lots of cheap stamps prior to 1936. Having fun is the most important thing I feel. I also have 4 collections down to a quadruplicates collection for foreign stamps (I.e. all countries not in the British Commonwealth albums) which I house in a similar pair of albums with spaces for each stamp up to 1936. They are cheaper to buy in general so I have many countries now 25% complete in that master album. A few are even 100% complete but not many.
@@StampSleuth my pleasure. I enjoy watching good videos like these and I like to give my thoughts when I feel like I have something interesting to say as well as thanking you personally too.
Your video 7:01, Hong Kong page with many early commomwealth cancel Canton, Amoy, Swaton-China S1 Singapore A1 also China Amoy aother I can't read last B62 = Hong Kong :)
Those are beautiful albums but very expensive to complete
Yes they are!
Beautiful albums. They are in such excellent condition, especially thinking how old they are. Thanks for showing them to us.
My pleasure!
Thank you for a wonderful little treat! 😁 I don't think I have seen an SG album before, definitely not one this old. I love that they have the catalogue information on one side with the stamps on the other. All of my printed albums have been Harris, except for a Russia Minkus album that a friend gave me years ago.
You are so welcome! It was a pleasure to go through it!
Great find. These are classic albums, I'd love to find a set of them. They aren't your typical beginner albums. I'd definitely continue to use them. 🙂
Two notes: using mounts throughout these fastbound or permanent albums will cause the album to bulge distressingly. The mounts are too thick. The books were designed in the age of hinges.
There are also 'Ideal' (I believe that's the name) albums for non-british stamps of the same era and a king George VI album to continue on. (your albums ended in 1936 as that was the end of King George V's reign)
Really awesome find!
Wow how interesting, I wondered why that date!
Interesting point @MarkDyck and I tend to agree with you. I inherited volume 1 and have purchased volume 2 so as to have the set. I have been buying quite a few stamps from various countries and for each one, irrespective of whether it is used or mint, have been putting in a black Hawid mount to preserve the condition of the stamp as much as possible. This has certainly resulted in the album bulging somewhat, although so far no damage done to it. More recently, with my focus moving towards Hong Kong and Falklands Islands, I am using the Lighthouse pre-printed albums, which are obviously designed not to bulge when full (not that I will ever fill them unless I have a lottery win !)
They are lovely albums, but you would need an awful lot of money to make a dent in filling it up!
Yes I agree but interesting all the same.
Very nice vintage albums but, yeah, impossible to even dream to get half way through it without having thousands of dollars to invest in them. Thanks for showing them nonetheless!
Very true!
You got a bargain buying those albums with some extra fairly common stamps as the albums are in excellent condition. I would have to pay up to £300 in an auction for something similar to that although a bit less if the album was a little worn. You did well. You would have a lot of fun adding to it in the future as I have done myself in the last few years. The Federated Malay States had the $1 and $2 tiger high values which are nice stamps and I am surprised they were not removed as they are quite valuable and worth much more than the majority of stamps that were already cherry picked. Maybe they had fiscal cancels which reduces their value considerably. The Hong Kong QV early issues also looked interesting.
A similar glory box with a starting price of £1 at auction sold for £1700 at an auction I attended a few years ago because it had a nice collection in the same albums as this without the hinge remainders on the pages though and a scattering of nice stamps throughout but still very sparse for most countries. I gave up bidding once it reached £900 as it got too high for me. I wished I could have bought it for the £1 I started the bidding off at. Haha 😛.
I doubt whether 10 million pounds could complete the books you showed though as there are some very elusive stamps in the older issues costing at least £10,000 each to buy and some more than £100,000. The rarest stamps include the British Guiana 1c magenta, which Stanley Gibbons owns now having bought the only copy in the world for $8.3 million in 2021. Many other issues rarely ever come on to the market to buy as they may also be the only copy in the world or just a few copies exist of them. So the best one can hope to do is to complete some countries within the album that do not have major rarities within them provided you have many thousands of pounds to spend on doing so.
I have 3 collections using these collections, a master collection plus duplicates and triplicates collections also to hold any swaps in a pleasing and rewarding fashion. Great Britain is my closest to completion but the last 10 stamps alone are valued at £400,000 so I will never get to complete it. I am just happy to try and get a few stamps on every page for most countries and aim for 25% completion for each country. I am nowhere near that although some major countries are easy to reach that target such as GB, Australia, Canada, India, New Zealand and South Africa which have lots of cheap stamps prior to 1936. Having fun is the most important thing I feel.
I also have 4 collections down to a quadruplicates collection for foreign stamps (I.e. all countries not in the British Commonwealth albums) which I house in a similar pair of albums with spaces for each stamp up to 1936. They are cheaper to buy in general so I have many countries now 25% complete in that master album. A few are even 100% complete but not many.
Very informative feedback, thank you for this, your care in the text and in the fact you are watching my videos! It is much appreciated!
@@StampSleuth my pleasure. I enjoy watching good videos like these and I like to give my thoughts when I feel like I have something interesting to say as well as thanking you personally too.
Nice album...
yes I agree, often older is better...right!
Your video 7:01, Hong Kong page with many early commomwealth cancel Canton, Amoy, Swaton-China S1 Singapore A1 also China Amoy aother I can't read last B62 = Hong Kong :)
Yes I love those postmarks, thanks for watching and for the great informational comment!