Frost

Colorful Years, Page 95 (RE-2)

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Robert Frost was a poet primarily from the Twentieth Centuries. He was born in New Hampshire in 1874 and died in 1963. He wrote thoughtful, somewhat mesmerizing poems about rural New England. Having grown up in the Boston area, I can appreciate them very much – his writing in particular about the searsons and landscape. The literary journal, Contemporary Literary Criticism says that Frost’s best poems deal with “fundamental questions of existence, depicting with chilling starkness the loneliness of the individual in an indifferent universe.” He wasn’t a positive person and was generally depressed. The downtrodden side of my nature identifies well with his poems. Perhaps that has influenced the writing style I use in my novels.

The stamp depicting Frost is especially memorable to me because my seventh-grade English teacher, Mrs. Mahoney told me that for her wedding, she used these stamps on the envelops when she sent out wedding invitations. I thought that was so apropos and neat. I’ve always wanted to use a stamp so well in conjunction with some mailing I was doing. That never happened.

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On this page you can see the colorful style I keep talking about from this period, for this sub-album. On the second to last row, you can see this, especially. There’s the psychodelic colorful feel of the large stamp in the middle – which was a popular style for posters at the time. There’s also the other two, in particular the stamp for Skylab. I like these colorful stamps, but I can’t help like the well done monochrome stamps like the one of Robert Frost. I wish someone would make a stamp of me like that.

Contains 16 spots: own 16 – 16 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	comment
1.1	✓	1525	Veterans of Foreign Wars	10c (mar 1974) comm., red & dark blue
1.2	✓	1542	Fort Harrod in Kentucky	10c (jun 1974) comm., multicolor
1.3	✓	1547	Energy Conservation	10c (sep 1974) comm., multicolor
1.4	✓	1528	Horse Racing	10c (may 1974) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	1543	Carpenters’ Hall	10c (jul 1974) comm., red & dark blue
2.2	✓	1544	Constitutional Congress	10c (jul 1974) comm., multicolor
3.1	✓	1545	Declaration of Independence	10c (jul 1974) comm., multicolor
3.2	✓	1546	Independence Hall	10c (jul 1974) comm., multicolor
4.1	✓	1526	Robert Frost	10c (mar 1974) comm., blue & grey
4.2	✓	1549	Retarded Child	10c (oct 1974) comm., multicolor
5.1	✓	1529	Skylab	10c (may 1974) comm., multicolor
5.2	✓	1527	Expo74	10c (apr 1974) definitive, multicolor
5.3	✓	1548	Legend of Sleepy Hollow	10c (oct 1974) comm., multicolor

Christmas & Holidays

6.1	✓	1551	The Road-Winter Currier & Ives	10c (oct 1974) comm., multicolor
6.2	✓	1550	Perussi Altarpiece	10c (oct 1974) comm., multicolor
6.3	✓	1552	Dove Weather Vane Mount Vernon	10c (nov 1974) 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.

• 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.