Multi-Color
These are postage stamps from the United States of America, starting 1958 when the U.S. Bureau of Engraving started producing stamps with multiple colors. Previously, most stamps were produced with only one color. A few were done with two colors. In the late 1950s, they started making stamps mostly with two and three colors. A good example of this is Scott 1122, shown here.
That stamp on Forest Conversation is on the first page of this album. It’s in the midst of many dull looking, monochrome stamps. You’ll have to click your way to the third or fourth page before you start seeing mostly multi-colored stamps. When you get to those pages, it’s so refreshing. I don’t think I would have collected stamps if they had not changed from single to multiple color stamps. At the same time, I don’t like full color stamps, or what they call process color. I prefer printing using just a few colors – and sometimes well done single-color stamps.
Note
I have almost all of the stamps on the pages of this album. I’m missing a few odd stamps, mostly of which are variants. They’re a little difficult to find at stores. They’re not expensive, just not very popular and not abundant.
remaining stamps & stories in sub-album
page |
story |
note |
used |
need |
ordered |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hoover & Stevenson (Colorful) |
✓ |
✓ |
1 |
||
Benjamin West (Colorful) |
✓ |
✓ |
1 |
- Lincolns
- NATO
- Boy Scouts
- Naismith
- Mercury
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Muir
- Hoover & Stevenson
- Bird Treaty
- Johnny Appleseed
- Gemini Four
- Leif Erikson
- Early Flags
- Botany
- Eisenhower
- Maine
- Nature
- MacArthur
- Alligator
- Cape Hatteras
- Brown Pelican
- Rebellion
- Love Mail
- Truman & Johnson
- Frost
- UPU Art
- Benjamin West
- Apollo-Soyuz