Naismith

I don’t like watching or playing basketball, the game that was developed by James Naismith in 1891. The significance of Naismith for me is that the stamp commemorating him and basket ball was issued on November 6, 1961 – the one hundred anniversary of his birth – just three days after I was born. I thought of breaking this album into two parts: Post World Wars and Post my Birth. I wish a stamp had been issued on November 3 and that it was something more interesting and a topic or person that speaks of me.

Note

Five of the stamps on the bottom two rows of this album page commemorate key battles during the U.S. Civil War. Each stamp was issued on the one-hundredreth anniversary of the battle they commemorate. I’ve never been a fan of the Civil War. Other boys when I was a kid used to read about it and teachers talked about it. They romanticized it. It seemed insignificant to me as a child: I saw no need to celebrate it. It’s like a married couple often talking about the time they fought each other, broke up, and got divorced, but later remarried. It’s good to be aware of it, but not spend much time on remembering it. Just move on.

Contains 19 spots: own 19 – 19 unused, 0 used.
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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
1.1	✓	1176	Range Conservation	4c (feb 1961) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	1183	Kansas Statehood	4c (may 1961) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	1184	Senator George W. Norris	4c (jul 1961) comm., blue green

Other

2.1	✓	1161	Robert A. Taft	4c (oct 1960) comm., dull violet
2.2	✓	1170	Walter F. George	4c (nov 1960) comm., dull violet
2.3	✓	1171	Andrew Carnegie	4c (nov 1960) comm., deep claret
2.4	✓	1172	John Foster Dulles	4c (dec 1960) comm., dull violet
2.5	✓	1177	Horace Greeley	4c (feb 1961) comm., dull violet
3.1	✓	1186	Worker’s Compensation	4c (sep 1961) comm., ultramarine
3.2	✓	1187	The Smoke Signal Frederic Remington	4c (oct 1961) comm., multicolor
3.3	✓	1188	Sun Yat-sen	4c (oct 1961) comm., blue
3.4	✓	1189	James Naismith Basketball	4c (nov 1961) comm., brown
3.5	✓	1190	Nursing	4c (dec 1961) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	1178	Fort Sumter	4c (apr 1961) comm., light green
4.2	✓	1185	Naval Aviation Curtiss A-1	4c (aug 1961) comm., blue
4.3	✓	1179	Battle of Shiloh	4c (apr 1962) comm., black
5.1	✓	1180	Battle of Gettysburg	5c (jul 1963) comm., blue & grey
5.2	✓	1182	Appomattox	5c (apr 1965) comm., black & prussian blue
5.3	✓	1181	Battle of the Wilderness	5c (may 1964) comm., black & dark 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.