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These are more of the same boring definitives. You can see why when I was younger I focused on newer issues from the U.S., as well as United Nations and Italian stamps – and a topical collection of birds on stamps. It wasn’t just the cost of these older ones, but that they were so dull. They’re all the same profile bust of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin. It’s like they forgot there were other Americans worth celebrating.
The main difference between the stamps one or two years (see Deja Vu Definitives) before these is the perforation: those have a perforation of twelve holes per two centimeters. These have ten holes. The reason for the change is that they found that with more holes there was more tearing of the stamp, the tearing wasn’t confined to the perforated border. With less holes and coarser paper, less damage was done when separating stamps.
There is one other deviation on this page. For some reason the top row of stamps were made with double-line watermarks of the initials, USPS (i.e., United States Postal Service), while the rest have single-line watermarks of the same letters. See the previous page for a description of watermarks.
Note
My strategy for completing a page sometimes is to focus only on that one page for a few months, foregoing purchases for other pages and putting all of my resources into locating and buying the stamps on that one page. I’ve done that with pages that have stamps I like on them. This is not one of those pages.
My other strategy is to buy occasionally one or two stamps on a page I find uninteresting in the hopes it’ll eventually be complete. At some point, though, it requires some attention – usually when the pages arounnd it are complete, making it stand out when perusing the album. Then I’ll work to finish it. This page isn’t there yet, owing to the fact that the pages around it have even less stamps and less of my attention. It’s like a man who hasn’t shaved in a few days, but hasn’t gone long enough to have a beard. The scruffiness is bothersome.
Contains 22 spots: own 14 – 4 unused, 10 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 |
Other Definitives
422 |
50c (feb 1912) |
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423 |
$1 (feb 1912) |
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460 |
$1 (feb 1915) |
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519 |
2c (oct 1917) |
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✗ |
424 |
1c (sep 1914) |
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✓ |
425 |
2c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
426 |
3c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
427 |
4c (sep 1914) |
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✓ |
428 |
5c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
429 |
6c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
430 |
7c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
431 |
8c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
432 |
9c (oct 1914) |
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433 |
10c (sep 1914) |
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✓ |
434 |
11c (aug 1915) |
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✓ |
435 |
12c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
437 |
15c (sep 1914) |
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✗ |
438 |
20c (sep 1914) |
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459 |
George Washington |
2c (jun 1914) |
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✗ |
439 |
30c (sep 1914) |
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440 |
50c (dec 1915) |
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461 |
2c (jun 1915) |
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.
