Mt. Rainier
In the first half of the 1790s, Captain George Vancouver of the Brittish navy led an expedition exploring and mapping the Pacific, northwest coast of North America. Vancouver in Canada is named for him. He’s the first European to discover the tallest mountain in what is now Washington state. He named it Mount Rainier after Admiral Peter Rainier.
The Secretary of the Interior in 1934, Harold Ickes – who was a stamp collector – requested a series of stamps be issued to celebrate and make the public aware of the national parks. Then President Franklin Roosevelt – also a stamp collector – agreed and chose which parks to represent. On this page you can see stamps depicting Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Smokey Mountains, Mesa Verde, Zion, and Yosemite national parks.
And there’s the middle purple stamp on the third row that shows a scene of a lake with Mount Rainier in the background – plus there’s a souvenir sheet on the previous page, a sheet of six stamps, with the same purple stamps that’s attributed to the American Philatelic Society, of which I’m a member.
Note
The space for the last stamp at the bottom of this page is confusing. This stamp was used for both air mail and special delivery service. The former is to have a letter sent from one city to another by air, but once it gets there, it’s delivered with the normal mail of the next day. The added special delivery service is to have the envelope, once it arrives in the destination city, delivered quickly.
First, I think an air mail special delivery stamp should have been located with the other special delivery stamps at the back of the book, or with the air mail stamps, also in the back. I’m not sure why Leuchtturm decided to put it here.
Second, there’s only one spot for an air mail special delivery stamp from 1934, but there were actually two issued: one in blue, and the other in red and blue. There’s not a space for the second stamp on any other album page. I’m thinking about adding a second stamp mount to this album page. I could redesign this page, removing the space here and adding both to the special delivery pages.
For now, I put the both stamps together in the same stamp mount. If you click on the image of the page to enlarge it, you can see the red one is behind the blue one. If you click on the link to the Assembled Page, you can see each stamp, separately.
Contains 16 spots: own 16 – 16 unused, 0 used.
Page is finished.
Album or Web Page Last changed Aug 25, 2024
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
754 |
3c (mar 1935) |
|||
✓ |
753 |
3c (mar 1935) |
|||
✓ |
739 |
Nicolet’s Landing |
3¢ (jul 1934) |
National Parks
✓ |
756 |
El Capitan |
1c (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
760 |
Geyser Old Faithful |
5c (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
752 |
G.W. Headquarters |
3c (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
763 |
Great White Throne |
8c (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
765 |
Great Smoky Mountains |
3¢ (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
757 |
Grand Canyon Natl. Pk. |
2¢ (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
758 |
Mount Rainier Natl. Pk. |
3¢ (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
759 |
Cliff Palace |
4¢ (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
761 |
Crater Lake Natl. Pk. |
6¢ (mar 1935) |
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✓ |
762 |
Great Head |
7c (mar 1935) |
||
✓ |
764 |
Mount Rockwell |
9c (mar 1935) |
Other
✓ |
CE1 |
16c (aug 1934) |
|||
✓ |
CE2 |
16c (feb 1936) |
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.
