Wednesday, 8 October 2025

The United Stamps of America!

My very basic Freedom U.S. album by H.E. Harris (at left in these photos) covered all of the 19th century in one page. Compact yes, but I had accumulated an abundance of early U.S. with no little black & white album-page illustrations in which to put them.
As a result of my recent MaxSold win I ended up with an 1960s Minkus All-American and an H.E. Harris Liberty U.S. album (at right in these photos). Both had very good descriptions and excellent coverage of the early U.S. issues, but I couldn't keep all three U.S. albums. With the Liberty being superior, I wondered if I could combine its early U.S. pages with my Freedom pages. (A long time ago, I had removed and three-hole punched the pages from the Liberty and added them to my own album pages for superseding U.S. issues.)
Yes, I could. I drew a line in the American sand, in the early 1930s, and transferred my early U.S. issues to the Liberty pages. There is one page of overlap and I used that to double up my coverage of the Washington centennial other period stamps. I used a USPS Guide to U.S. Stamps and Google to try to get the right stamp on the right illustration.


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