Before 1940 everyone who collected stamps had a World Wide collection. They may have specialized in US or Great Britain but they maintained a general foreign collection that had been their starter collection and which, for most collectors, was still the major appeal that philately had for them. And there were many different types of world wide albums from Harris to Grossman to Minkus. But the Cadillac of world wide Albums was the Scott International Album, especially Volume I that contained the first century of philately, that is the stamps that were issued from 1840-1940.
We purchased an wonderful old Volume I Scott International Album recently (that is expanded to two volumes because the number of stamps was too great for one volume). It has over 30,000 different stamps to 1940, all neatly mounted in a nice Scott International album and the collection is strong in just about all the areas-Latin America, British Commonwealth, France and Colonies, China (including #1,3, 3 different Red Revenues), good Japan, Spain and Colonies and much more- over 30,000 different stamps, all but a few of them F-VF with a total catalog value of over $120,000. We are offering it to readers of this blog, intact as received for only $ 9500. Offer ends next Monday when we will begin to break it up for our regular sales.
Also, the collector had a great United States collection, two volumes to 1980, a few items have been removed but over 95% complete for all of US to 1980, over $130,000 2013 Scott catalog value with stamps like #112-122, K1-18, great Officials, Ducks highly complete mint and much more. We are offering this intact as it came to us for $ 11,500. Again some stamps are defective but most are F-VF and there are some certificates. Both lots are good (no very good) value and come with our money back guarantee of satisfaction.
By the way-if you want both you can have them for $19500, which is less than 8% of catalog for two very nice collections.