Chip Pairs

There isn’t much I can say about these stamps, other than they were printed on a rotary press. As mentioned a few pages back in this album, when a rotary press is used, the paper is stretched in the process as it’s pulled through – the flat plates press down on the paper and it’s pulled out after being printed. That’s why there are notations on the album page here about the dimensions of the stamps. The results of using a rotary press is that the stamps tend to be one millimeter longer, but that varies with each printing.

Colorful Page Names

You may be wondering about the names of these pages: bland, deja vu, color palette, paint chips, dabs, and smudges. Basically, since the stamps on each page are faily identitical, the same bland stamps, there isn’t much I can latch onto for naming them. Each page looks like a sampling of colors – like a brochure with paint chips, or an artist’s paint pallete, with dabs and smudges of color. So I used those metaphors to name each page here.

Note

Since they’re not too pricey, I’ve been buying these coil pairs. None of these, though, are line pairs – the ones with a line along the perforation between stamps that were printed at the end of two coils. You can read more about how that happens on the Line Pairs page – about twenty-five pages after this one. I’ve been trying to collect only line pairs, but they cost so much more for the ones on this page. As a result, I amended my policy to collect only line pairs when they’re not too expensive. Stamp collecting often involves being flexible about standards.

Contains 12 spots: own 8 – 8 unused, 0 used.
Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 20, 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	✓	448	George Washington	1c (dec 1915) definitive, green
1.2	✓	487	George Washington Type II	2c (nov 1916) definitive, carmine
1.3	✓	488	George Washington Type III	2c (jan 1919) definitive, carmine
1.4	✓	489	George Washington Type I	3c (oct 1917) definitive, violet
2.1	✓	452	George Washington	1c (nov 1914) definitive, green
2.2		454	George Washington Type II	2c (jun 1915) definitive, red
2.3	✓	455	George Washington Type III	2c (dec 1915) definitive, carmine
3.1		456	George Washington Type I	3c (feb 1916) definitive, violet
3.2	✓	494	George Washington Type II	3c (feb 1918) definitive, violet & grey violet
4.1		457	George Washington	4c (feb 1916) definitive, brown
4.2		458	George Washington	5c (mar 1916) definitive, blue
5.1	✓	497	Benjamin Franklin	10c (jan 1922) definitive, yellow orange

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.