Deja Vu Definitives

Most of these stamps are a continuation of the design introduced in 1908 (see Bland Definitives). The only deviation here and the subsequent pages are just how tight are the perforations.

The ones on the bottom two rows, though, have a new design starting in 1912. It’s not a significant deviation: the old images of Washington and Franklin were surrounded by olive branches, while the new ones have only a small cluster of olive leaves in the bottom corners.

This new design is used only for stamps with denominations from eight-cents and above, which are less used amounts. The design for the commonly used values (e.g., one and two-cents) were kept the same. Incidentally, you may wonder why there aren’t denominations higher fifty cents, why there aren’t a one-dollar, two-dollar, or three-dollar stamps. That’s because they weren’t much demand for them: postage was cheap in those days. They had plenty left from the old design that were printed in 1903: see the Farragut, Madison, and Marshall stamps on the Adorned Definitives page.

Note

These stamps aren’t as expensive as the bluish ones two pages back. These are just so dull and so much like the ones on the other pages in this section. I can’t get excited about looking for them and buying them. I try to buy one or two every couple of months, though, to make some progress on this page. When I get a few more I may push to complete the page, but not any time soon.

Contains 24 spots: own 21 – 12 unused, 9 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

1.1	✗	374	Benjamin Franklin	1c (nov 1910) definitive, green
1.2	✓	375	George Washington	2c (nov 1910) definitive, carmine
1.3	✗	376	George Washington	3c (jan 1911) definitive, deep violet
1.4	✗	377	George Washington	4c (jan 1911) definitive, brown
2.1	✓	378	George Washington	5c (jan 1911) definitive, blue
2.2	✗	379	George Washington	6c (jan 1911) definitive, red orange
2.3	✓	380	George Washington	8c (feb 1911) definitive, olive green
2.4	✗	381	George Washington	10c (jan 1911) definitive, yellow
2.5		382	George Washington	15c (mar 1911) definitive, bright ultramarine

Imperforated Definitives

3.1	✓	383	Benjamin Franklin	1c (jan 1911) definitive, green
3.2	✓	384	George Washington	2c (jan 1911) definitive, carmine
3.4	✓	408	George Washington	1c (mar 1912) definitive, green
3.5	✓	409	George Washington	2c (feb 1912) definitive, carmine

Other Definitives

4.1	✓	405	George Washington	1c (feb 1912) definitive, green
4.2	✓	406	George Washington	2c (feb 1912) definitive, carmine
4.3	✗	407	George Washington	7c (apr 1914) definitive, black

New Design

5.1	✓	414	Benjamin Franklin	8c (feb 1912) definitive, olive light olive green
5.2	✓	415	Benjamin Franklin	9c (apr 1914) definitive, salmon red
5.3	✗	416	Benjamin Franklin	10c (jan 1912) definitive, orange yellow
5.4	✓	417	Benjamin Franklin	12c (apr 1914) definitive, claret brown
5.5	✗	418	Benjamin Franklin	15c (feb 1912) definitive, grey
6.1		419	Benjamin Franklin	20c (apr 1914) definitive, ultramarine
6.2	✗	420	Benjamin Franklin	30c (apr 1914) definitive, red orange
6.3		421	Benjamin Franklin	50c (apr 1914) definitive, violet

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.