Line Pairs

These stamps are coil stamps. They were printed generally in strips of one-hundred stamps each, and then 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.

As part of the process, as the stamps were printed, at the end of each set of one-hundred stamps, there would be a slight be of ink. The printing would continue to the next set, again causing a line at the start and end of the set. Aftewards, the printing office would cut apart the sets of one-hundred along the line between sets. However, sometimes they would sell larger sets, perhaps five-hundred in one coil. In which case, there would be pairs of stamps that had a joint line still visible.

All of these stamps are joint-line pairs. I choose to collect coil pairs almost all with lines, but not all of them. Some are too expensive for me and having the line isn’t that important to me.

Note

These stamps are the same as some of the others on the previous page, but instead of having been printed on a sheet of stamps, they were printed in a coil – a strip, one wide. Some people prefer to collect coil stamps in pairs for some reason. I’m not sure why. I used to prefer having them as singles: that’s what I had. Leuchtturm decided to layout the album page with them in pairs, like you see here. I could have designed my own pages to replace these album pages, but I’ve decided to go with the coil pairs convention.

Contains 13 spots: own 13 – 13 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Mar 16, 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

Vertical Coil Pairs

1.1	✓	848	George Washington	1c (jan 1939) definitive, green
1.2	✓	849	Martha Washington	1½c (jan 1939) definitive, bistre brown
1.3	✓	850	John Adams	2c (jan 1939) definitive, pink carmine
1.4	✓	851	Thomas Jefferson	3c (jan 1939) definitive, deep violet

Horizontal Coil Pairs

2.1	✓	839	George Washington	1c (jan 1939) definitive, green
2.2	✓	840	Martha Washington	1½c (jan 1939) definitive, bistre brown
2.3	✓	841	John Adams	2c (jan 1939) definitive, pink carmine
3.1	✓	842	Thomas Jefferson	3c (jan 1939) definitive, deep violet
3.2	✓	843	James Madison	4c (jan 1939) definitive, red violet
4.1	✓	844	White House (1792)	4½c (jan 1939) definitive, dark grey
4.2	✓	845	James Monroe	5c (jan 1939) definitive, bright blue
5.1	✓	846	John Quincy Adams	6c (jan 1939) definitive, red orange
5.2	✓	847	John Tyler	10c (jan 1939) definitive, brown red

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.