Cape Hatteras

The national park, Cape Hatteras is part of Hatteras Island, one of the barrier islands off the coast of North Carolina. It has a sandy beach with many water and shore birds: piping plovers, Wilson’s plovers, American oystercatchers, black skimmers, American white ibises, eastern willets, and many others. Also, sea turtles lay eggs along the shore. So later in the year when they hatch, there are many battle turtles emerging and making their way into the ocean. Cape Hatteras is quite a paradise in its own right.

This album page has a few other stamps celebrating some other national parks. The first one is shows Wolf Trap Farm for performing arts in Fairfax, Virginia. The second one shows a geysur in Yellowstone national park in Wyoming. The third one is of Mount McKinley in Alaska.

Note

What a beautiful set of stamps, the four small stamps for Cape Hatteras. I’ve never been there, but those stamps make me wish to visit it some day. If you separate them, they’re not as nice. Normally, when there are four stamps, the face value of each one would be the cost of mailing an enevelope, which was eight cents at that time. Since these stamps are each two-cents and given their size, all four of them together could be used on an envelope – preserving their attractiveness.

Contains 18 spots: own 18 – 18 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 27, 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
1.1	✓	1452	Wolf Trap Farm	6c (jun 1972) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	1453	Yellowstone Natl. Park	8c (mar 1972) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	1454	Mt. McKinley	15c (jul 1972) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	1448	Cape Hatteras	2c (apr 1972) definitive, multicolor
2.2	✓	1449	Cape Hatteras	2c (apr 1972) definitive, multicolor
3.1	✓	1450	Cape Hatteras	2c (apr 1972) definitive, multicolor
3.2	✓	1451	Cape Hatteras	2c (apr 1972) definitive, multicolor
4.1	✓	1446	Sidney Lanier	8c (feb 1972) comm., multicolor
4.2	✓	1447	Peace Corps Poster by David Battle	8c (feb 1972) comm., multicolor
5.1	✓	1456	Glass Blower	8c (jul 1972) comm., dark brown
5.2	✓	1457	Silversmith	8c (jul 1972) comm., dark brown
6.1	✓	1458	Wigmaker	8c (jul 1972) comm., dark brown
6.2	✓	1459	Hat Maker	8c (jul 1972) comm., dark brown
7.1	✓	1455	Family Planning	8c (mar 1972) comm., multicolor
7.2	✓	1469	Osteopathic Medicine	8c (oct 1972) comm., multicolor
8.1	✓	1460	Summer Olympics, Munich	6c (aug 1972) comm., multicolor
8.2	✓	1461	Winter Olympics, Sapporo	8c (aug 1972) comm., multicolor
8.3	✓	1462	Summer Olympics, Munich	15c (aug 1972) comm., multicolor

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.
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