Liberty Pairs

These are coil stamps from the series of stamps on the previous album page. Only the most used denominations were made in the coil format: one, two, three, four, and five cent face amounts. There are also some half-cent amounts. I’m not sure what kind of post required or allowed for them.

Featured on these stamps are a couple of famous places: The Hermitage, which was the home of President Andrew Jackson in Tennessee; the Palace of Governors in Sante Fe, New Mexico; and the Battle of Bunker Hill Monument. The other stamps are of famous, historic Americans – some of which I describe on other pages.

Paul Revere

Revere was actually a silver smith. He made a variety of silver items for fine homes in the Massachusetts. This gave me contact with many of the wealthy and community leaders in the area, which serve him well in the American Revolution. In particular, he was helpful in securing supplies and other resource for the Continental Army from these contacts.

Revere was also active in his church. He was a bell ringer at the Old North Church. This gave him access to the bell tower. It was from there that he is famously known to have watched Boston Harbor and the surrounding area to determine if British troops when leaving their garrison would be traveling by land or by sea (i.e., by the Charles River), and began the process of signally the colonial troops of the troop movements. He then rode to Lexington, informing other riders along the way to spread the word.

Note

These are all line pair coil stamps. They have a line between them along the perforation, which is caused by a rotary printing press. They cost a little more, but they’re still not expensive since these aren’t rare or very old stamps.

Contains 10 spots: own 10 – 10 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

Liberty Definitives

1.1	✓	1054A	Palace of Governors	1¼c (jun 1960) definitive, turquoise
1.2	✓	1054	George Washington	1c (oct 1954) definitive, dark green
1.3	✓	1059	The Hermitage	4½c (may 1959) definitive, blue green
2.1	✓	1055	Thomas Jefferson	2c (oct 1954) definitive, pink carmine
2.2	✓	1056	Bunker Hill	2½c (sep 1959) definitive, grey blue
2.3	✓	1057	Statue of Liberty	3c (jul 1954) definitive, deep violet
3.1	✓	1058	Abraham Lincoln	4c (jul 1958) definitive, red violet
4.1	✓	1225	Andrew Jackson	1c (mar 1963) definitive, green
4.2	✓	1059A	Paul Revere	25c (feb 1965) definitive, green
4.3	✓	1229	George Washington	5c (nov 1962) definitive, dark blue grey

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.