Norway -- Steiner album pages

been working on a couple of stock pages of Norway. As is fairly typical -- I have about 100 stamps to mount and will print ~50 pages to do it. Came across this nice engraved stamp ... engraver is Sverre Morken who has designed and engraved many of Norway's stamps over the last several decades.

Some Modern US

 mounting modern US sheets first then will move to used

Finishing up a stack of Portugal pages

I like the Portugal stamps ... some favorites

Pushing on

am up to ~70 countries with at least one page ... through the big binders and am cleaning up the smaller ones. 

scanned a binder full of Canada pages yesterday ... some of them below 

Progress Report

been scanning every morning ... am up to ~65 countries with a number of subcategories, especially in my US collections. This morning I started on my Canada. Lots of pages, lots of holes, lots of loose stamps to see if I can fill those holes. Seems it's easier for me to just go look and buy stamps to fill the holes while I'm working on a country than it is to go though my loose stamps collections to fill those holes. Meanwhile, while I'm waiting for the mail, I move on ... and rinse and repeat.

So trying to stop buying while I'm scanning. It's hard.

once I have my pages all scanned (around Thanksgiving hopefully), I can then start sorting though my boxes of purchased materials ... and THEN if I don't already have a space printed, I can print more pages.

Sigh ... I AM making progress though.

couldn't resist trying to get this set started. This is not my collection ... but rather a facebook pic posted to show completion. The entire set used runs ~$1300 catalog value. I purchased a set of the first six with nice cancels for $65. Of course the last five in the set are the most expensive ... but maybe one every month or so.

Belgium -- part 1

Minkus pages for Belgium through 1952.

Chile -- part 1

scanned in some old pages of Chile that I had printed and mounted a few stamps onto ... also some varios with some random Chilean stamps. I think I have a whole stack of Chile pages printed somewhere so I will hold off printing more until I get further through phase 1 of  my project.