tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post3619915163927857010..comments2024-03-23T04:12:08.762-07:00Comments on Big Blue 1840-1940: Most expensive stamps in Big Blue: Aden-BurmaJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-22410879831393560202011-05-20T09:06:43.894-07:002011-05-20T09:06:43.894-07:00Very nice analysis Bob! I think you hit the nail o...Very nice analysis Bob! I think you hit the nail on the head about Scott probably having a ~$1 upper limit criteria for inclusion. (Classics, no doubt, because of their desirability and general collector awareness, would have had a higher cut-off.) <br /> <br />Even today, many collectors will balk at spending more than $10 on a stamp for a worldwide collection in a non specialty area for them. This agrees nicely with the $1 or less that Scott would have used for possible inclusion.<br /><br />By the way, I found this site which gives inflationary yearly adjustments from 1913-2011.<br /><br />http://www.usinflationcalculator.com/Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-37725212533328398492011-05-19T17:57:39.769-07:002011-05-19T17:57:39.769-07:00Great post! I've long been fascinated about ca...Great post! I've long been fascinated about catalog values and the Blue. For example, was there an approximate catalog value cut off point that the album editors used to determine which stamps to include? And on a more general note, how do values in earlier Scott catalogs correlate with current versions? <br /><br />A couple of thoughts just looking at the examples you post. I think Scott included the Albania 1940 postage dues that now catalog $185 because these cataloged a mere 91 cents (!) in the 1943 catalog. Interestingly, the other Albanian postage dues looked to have been equally or more expensive at the time. Most of the other stamps you list that currently catalog in the $35-$60 range were $1 to $1.50 in 1943. So perhaps a $1 or so (adjusted up or down depending upon when the stamp first appeared in the Blue) might have been the working cut off point, remembering that then as now collectors wouldn't have paid full catalog.<br /><br />The anomalies in your list are Austria number 1 which cataloged $3 in 1943 and may have been included because it was the first issue of a popular country. The stamps I think you can most strongly argue do not belong are the Bremens which even then (1943) were in the $13.50-$15 range. But then perhaps they were much cheaper in the catalog that was current when the Blue first came out. I don't have anyway to check this.<br /><br />Incidentally, a 1943 dollar is worth not quite $13 today.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04111329068221289436noreply@blogger.com