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Old June 7th 05, 08:27 PM
George
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Quite apart from the fact that many PO departments worldwide seem to want to
discourage the use of postage stamps, there is a fundamental weakness, and
bias with SCOTT catalogs.

Scott may have reasonable valuations for the US material, but for almost all
other countries, the Scott valuation seems to be but a small fraction of the
values for the same stamps in reutable recognised catalos such as MICHEL,
Yvert, SG, FACIT, Zumstein and similar.

In other words, it seems that Scott is only interested in US wallpaper, and US
collectors, and may be deliberately undervaluing European and other countries'
material?

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:56:44 +0800, "Alfred Lee" wrote:

Well, I don't think this issue is peculiar to the Germans alone. I believe
the crux of the problem is due to the reduced usage of postage stamps? Most
of the mail I receive from Germany have labels attached. Not a stamp in
sight. Otherwise, it is the tiny definitives, which is aptly valued in the
lower echelons.


But of course, there seems to be too much of a bias here when they are all
priced 0.60+ each. Anyone can provide the amount of stamps issued?


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Old June 15th 05, 03:13 PM
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Quite apart from the fact that many PO departments worldwide seem to want to
discourage the use of postage stamps, there is a fundamental weakness, and
bias with SCOTT catalogs.

Scott may have reasonable valuations for the US material, but for almost all
other countries, the Scott valuation seems to be but a small fraction of the
values for the same stamps in reutable recognised catalos such as MICHEL,
Yvert, SG, FACIT, Zumstein and similar.

In other words, it seems that Scott is only interested in US wallpaper, and US
collectors, and may be deliberately undervaluing European and other countries'
material?

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 08:56:44 +0800, "Alfred Lee" wrote:

Well, I don't think this issue is peculiar to the Germans alone. I believe
the crux of the problem is due to the reduced usage of postage stamps? Most
of the mail I receive from Germany have labels attached. Not a stamp in
sight. Otherwise, it is the tiny definitives, which is aptly valued in the
lower echelons.


But of course, there seems to be too much of a bias here when they are all
priced 0.60+ each. Anyone can provide the amount of stamps issued?


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Old June 21st 05, 10:53 PM
Roger Smith
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"Ken McVaySOBC" wrote in message
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Quite apart from the fact that many PO departments worldwide seem to want
to
discourage the use of postage stamps, there is a fundamental weakness, and
bias with SCOTT catalogs.

Scott may have reasonable valuations for the US material, but for almost
all
other countries, the Scott valuation seems to be but a small fraction of
the
values for the same stamps in reutable recognised catalos such as MICHEL,
Yvert, SG, FACIT, Zumstein and similar.

In other words, it seems that Scott is only interested in US wallpaper,
and US
collectors, and may be deliberately undervaluing European and other
countries'
material?


Ken

Could it not simply be that Scott is reflecting the US market in these
items?

Regards, Roger


 




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