Bland Pairs

These stamps are just like some of the ones on the previous page, except that these are coils. Only the most in demand denominations are printed and sold in coils. They were printed generally in strips of one-hundred stamps each. You can distinguish them from stamps printed in sheets by the perforations on two parallel sides, but straight cut edges on the other two sides of each. As such, they’re often collected in pairs like you see here. Some coils are printed vertically, as you see on the first row here, or they’re printed horizontally, as you see on the other rows.

These stamps are called coils because after printing, they’re coiled and sold through a vending machine, or for customers to keep in some sort of metal device that allows the stamps to be removed similarly, one at a time. The U.S. Post Office still sells coiled stamps and sells a dispenser for them.

Note

At this point, I have none of these stamps. I prefer singles over pairs, but this is the layout of the Leuchtturm stamp album pages. Coil pairs cost at a minimum twice the price of single sheet stamps since there are two of them. From there they can cost much more to have a pair unused since there may have been fewer printed and fewer preserved together. That logic isn’t always accurate, though. Nevertheless, the stamps for this album page are fairly high. So I haven’t acquired any of them yet.

Contains 9 spots: own 0 – 0 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 19, 2025

Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot

own

catalog

subject

description

comment

Definitive Line Pairs

1.1	348	Benjamin Franklin First Coil Stamp	1c (dec 1908) definitive, green
1.2	349	George Washington	2c (jan 1909) definitive, carmine
1.3	350	George Washington	4c (aug 1910) definitive, orange brown
1.4	351	George Washington	5c (jan 1909) definitive, blue
2.1	352	Benjamin Franklin	1c (jan 1909) definitive, green
2.2	353	George Washington	2c (jan 1909) definitive, carmine
3.1	354	George Washington	4c (feb 1909) definitive, orange brown
3.2	355	George Washington	5c (feb 1909) definitive, blue
4.1	356	George Washington	10c (jan 1909) definitive, yellow

Footnotes

Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).
Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.
Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.
To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.