End of Old
At this point, from 1919 to 1923, the Bureau of Engraving had decide on designing some new definitives stamps, as well as to start making commemorative stamps again. The public had learned its lesson – plus many of those who had complained in 1930 about their ornate series in 1902 had died, either from World War I, or during the influenza pandemic from 1918 to 1920, or just old age. The public and the Bureau were ready for a new start.
The new definitives, though, would not be ready for distrubution unitl 1923 (see the Rutherford Hayes page) and they still had plenty of the old stamps in stock at the post offices around the country. They did have a shortage of the lower face amounts, though. To deal with that, they reprinted the one-cent and two-cent a few more times until they the new definitives were ready for release. These stamps are those reprints. They’re the same as previous years, except that they changed the perforations: some have perforation of ten holes per two centimeters, some eleven holes. And some have ten one way and eleven the other – instead of just one perforation all around.
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I’ve been trying to complete this page. I have a little more than half of them. There aren’t many stamps for this page, so that wasn’t too difficult. I’d like to finish the page, but I haven’t found many of these for sale lately.
Contains 9 spots: own 5 – 5 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 |
Definitives - No Watermark; Rotary Press
✓ |
538 |
1c (jun 1919) |
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539 |
George Washington |
2c (jun 1919) |
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✓ |
540 |
George Washington |
2c (jun 1919) |
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✓ |
541 |
3c (jun 1919) |
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✓ |
542 |
1c (may 1920) |
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✓ |
543 |
1c (may 1921) |
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545 |
1c (may 1921) |
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544 |
1c (may 1923) |
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546 |
2c (may 1921) |
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.
