Capitol Bldgs.

During these years, they seem to be giddy with commemorative stamps, rather than definitives. Some of the simple definitives showing a profile of George Washington are still in use, but new issues are like these. It’s causes a bit of sensory overload of sorts. Still, there are a few worth noting.

This page is labeled capital buildings because of a series of four stamps in the first and second row commemorating the 150th anniversary of the establishment of the capital in Washington, D.C. Basically, these are of the White House, the Supreme Court building, and the Capitol building. They’re nice looking, albeit not very exciting.

The fourth stamp is of the statue on top of the Capitol dome. It represents freedom, but is that of a pregnant woman. The artistic imagery or metaphor is that the U.S. when it was constructed was the birth of new freedoms and democracy to come.

Note

These stamps are pretty dull. The style is to show scenes and a collage of things to represent some thing or some event. They’re not very artistic or creative. It’s like they were designed by a committee of postal workers.

Contains 15 spots: own 15 – 15 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

U.S. Capital

1.1	✓	990	Capital Dome Statue	3c (jun 1950) comm., dark green
1.2	✓	989	Statue of Freedom on Capital Dome	3c (apr 1950) comm., bright blue
1.3	✓	991	U.S. Supreme Court	3c (aug 1950) comm., bright violet
2.1	✓	992	U.S. Capitol	3c (nov 1950) comm., bright red violet
2.2	✓	993	Casey Jones & Locomotives	3c (apr 1950) definitive, violet brown
2.3	✓	995	Boy Scouts	3c (jun 1950) comm., sepia
3.1	✓	994	Kansas City	3c (jun 1950) comm., violet
3.2	✓	997	California Statehood	3c (sep 1950) comm., yellow orange
3.3	✓	996	Gov. William Henry Harrison	3c (jul 1950) comm., bright blue
4.1	✓	998	United Confederate Veterans	3c (may 1951) comm., grey
4.2	✓	999	Nevada First Settlement	3c (jul 1951) comm., light olive green
4.3	✓	1000	Cadillac Landing at Detroit	3c (jul 1951) comm., blue
5.1	✓	1001	Colorado Capitol	3c (aug 1951) comm., blue violet
5.2	✓	1002	American Chemical Society	3c (sep 1951) comm., violet brown
5.3	✓	1003	Washington at Brooklyn Fulton Ferry House	3c (dec 1951) comm., violet

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.