Johnny Appleseed
John Chapman, who lived in the late 1700s and the first half of the 1800s, was known as Johnny Appleseed – shown in the stamp in the middle of the top row here. He was a horticulturalist from Massachusetts who had a 1200-acre tree nusery. He established many apple orchards using seeds from apple trees – as opposed to using cuttings from existing trees. He assisted in the planting of apple trees in Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, as well as in Ontario, Canada.
Most apple trees don’t produce edible apples. They’re often harsh tasting and only edible when used to make hard cider, alcohol. About one-percent of apple seeds planted will produce a tree with sweet apples. To start new trees that produce sweet apples, one would normally graft branches from sweet producing apple trees onto other apple trees. In essence, since Chapman was planting apple trees using seeds, he was starting the process for producing alcohol on the frontier.
Note
Some of these stamps are nice. The one of the Jefferson Memorial and the cherry blossoming trees in Washington is pretty. Were it not for the souvenir sheet on the previous page, all of the stamps on that page and this page could have fit on one page. It’s only sixteen stamps. I like one page per year, if possible.
Contains 9 spots: own 9 – 9 unused, 0 used.
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Album or Web Page Last changed Apr 26, 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 |
comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
✓ |
1314 |
5c (aug 1966) |
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✓ |
1317 |
5c (sep 1966) |
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✓ |
1318 |
5c (oct 1966) |
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✓ |
1315 |
5c (aug 1966) |
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✓ |
1319 |
5c (oct 1966) |
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✓ |
1320 |
5c (oct 1966) |
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✓ |
1316 |
5c (sep 1966) |
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✓ |
1322 |
The Boating Party |
5c (nov 1966) |
Christmas & Holidays
✓ |
1321 |
Madonna & Child |
5c (nov 1966) |
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.
