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Harvey
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23 Jun 2021
03:06:32pm
I was looking through my Australia want list at the huge number of DNE's (does not exist) that I have listed. Why do some countries have so may numbers that are skipped in the Scott's catalog? Is this unique to Scott's or do other catalogs have them as well? Is it because they left space for future stamps or decided certain stamps were not "for postal use" and pulled them? Can you imagine the chaos if Scott's decided to go back and drop all these gaps and change the numbers? Are there other countries with lots of gaps? I know all areas I collect have a few but Australia is by far the worst!
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23 Jun 2021
04:35:39pm

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It is quite common in the Scott catalogues. Sometimes, especially with the very old stamps, they suddenly realize that some stamps that they had listed were revenues or anything other than ordinary stamps after all, but most of the time they reserve numbers because they expect certain series, especially definitives, to grow over the years. Where other catalogues just list stamps chronologically, Scott thinks it is important to group stamps together. That can lead to confusing situations, when for instance a stamp has an imprint "1995", but because the first stamp of that series was issued in 1986, one has to figure out it is listed there.
Take the wildlife high value definitives from Canada:
#1687 (the $1 loon) is from 1998, 1688 and 1689 from 2005, 1690 from 1998 again, 1691 and 1692 from 2005, 1693 from 2003 and 1694 from 1997. The $10 whale however, part of the same series, is #2405 but at the same time numbers 1701 to 1707 are unused. Please tell me how this is logical.

And to add to this, an image of that particular stamp is not always included, so you are really in the dark most of the time...


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This is my diabetic cat OBI! I think, therefore I am - I think! Descartes, sort of!
23 Jun 2021
03:06:32pm

I was looking through my Australia want list at the huge number of DNE's (does not exist) that I have listed. Why do some countries have so may numbers that are skipped in the Scott's catalog? Is this unique to Scott's or do other catalogs have them as well? Is it because they left space for future stamps or decided certain stamps were not "for postal use" and pulled them? Can you imagine the chaos if Scott's decided to go back and drop all these gaps and change the numbers? Are there other countries with lots of gaps? I know all areas I collect have a few but Australia is by far the worst!

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Jansimon

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23 Jun 2021
04:35:39pm

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re: Why does...?

It is quite common in the Scott catalogues. Sometimes, especially with the very old stamps, they suddenly realize that some stamps that they had listed were revenues or anything other than ordinary stamps after all, but most of the time they reserve numbers because they expect certain series, especially definitives, to grow over the years. Where other catalogues just list stamps chronologically, Scott thinks it is important to group stamps together. That can lead to confusing situations, when for instance a stamp has an imprint "1995", but because the first stamp of that series was issued in 1986, one has to figure out it is listed there.
Take the wildlife high value definitives from Canada:
#1687 (the $1 loon) is from 1998, 1688 and 1689 from 2005, 1690 from 1998 again, 1691 and 1692 from 2005, 1693 from 2003 and 1694 from 1997. The $10 whale however, part of the same series, is #2405 but at the same time numbers 1701 to 1707 are unused. Please tell me how this is logical.

And to add to this, an image of that particular stamp is not always included, so you are really in the dark most of the time...


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