I submitted and was approved for adding a new link and I thought I would make everyone aware of it. Many of us are tired of having to purchase entire Scott catalogue volumes when we only collect one or a few countries in a particular volume. Well, there is one potential option out there:
CHIROKMD--Scott individual country pages http://www.scottcataloguepages.com/
CHIROKMD is authorized by Scott to sell individual country pages right out of the catalog--these are NOT copies! CHIROKMD also has a store on EBay which auctions some of the pages he has available, usually discounted from his website.
I have bought from CHIROKMD a number if times recently, and it was great for me since I collect only certain areas. What I do with the pages is place each country's pages in a protective sheet and then alphabetize by country in a 3 ring binder. SO much less room than the catalogs take up!
I've bought from them in the past, and just did another order last week.
The only thing I'll say is to compare the prices on their website with their prices on eBay, including the shipping.
Even with a 10% coupon, I ended up paying more (about $4 more on a $20 order) by ordering directly from their website. I would've thought it would've been cheaper, because they're not paying the eBay final value fee, but I was wrong. Got really nailed on the shipping.
So my advice would be, do the math.
(In my case, he added to second item that I was looking for on eBay a day or so after he added it to his website, and I ordered during the interval between.)
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I agree, Dave. I split my last purchases from him between his EBay store and his website, depending on which had the pages I needed, or which was cheaper.
Do you know if he offers customized pages? For example, if I wanted just wanted Victoria from the Australian States, can he accommodate that request? Or will I have to buy the whole Australian States set?
This is interesting. I have seen stand alone country pages sold on ebay. Having received a survey from Amos Press it would seem that they will be going to 12 volumes rather than 6 maybe as soon as the next set of catalogs. Currently my own set is 2014 as the cost is insane to keep purchasing new. Sadly as a seller, I need to have a complete set but as a collector, I would go for the individual country. Of course you could just ditch Scott and go with the Stampworld.com online catalog. It has its own numbering system but I use it myself for trying to find stamps as every stamp is illustrated. Especially helpful for countries like Spain
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As a collector of only a few countries he is my choice ,I have bought my country pages from him for several years now.
As an added bonus the envelope usually arrives with the stamps uncancelled.
On receipt of my last order Australia Post had managed to cancel the two highest values the $10 & $5 wave stamps.
Brian
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