U.S. stamps on colored papers

As I mentioned in the first post of my Ships on U.S.Stamps Collection, the early 1990s was a transition period in my collecting as I stopped collecting U.S. and moved to world-wide used stamps. One of my last U.S. efforts was to put together another mini-collection of U.S. stamps on colored papers. One of the philatelic publications had published a check-list of 38 Scott numbers for these stamps and I thought it would be a fun exercise to find and mount them. I had most among my duplicates, but a couple proved more difficult to find and they are still lacking. Here is page one of six pages. If anyone is interested, I'll post the checklist I used.

Don

 

I would like to see the checklist; I love lists! Of course, these are true colours as opposed to the W-F so-called blue paper and others such as the grey paper 3c pictorial stamp.

 

Here it is. Probably needs updating, I haven't followed U.S. for quite some time now, but at least it is a start.

Don

 

Here is page two:

 

Thanks much, Mr Stamps! I'll check for updates tho my latest Scott's US Specialized is 2016.

 

Pages three & four, (multiples). I have not looked diligently, but the multiples of the Indian Head Penny issue and the Windmills booklet are difficult to find canceled. I gave up and bought an unused plate block of the Indian Head, but still watching for a used Windmills as a booklet page.

Don

 

Pages five, six & seven begin and end the U.S. Americana definitive series. I have not attempted to continue this mini collection beyond the checklist above which ended with this series.

Don

 

Very nice! Especially the windmills booklet pane. It is doubly difficult to find one with the tab still attached. They did not separate easily from the booklet covers.

I need to redouble my efforts to find these used.

Don

 

Yes, I have always had a difficult time distinguishing paper and ink colors. May be a vision problem for me. As a result, I am frequently reluctant to buy stamps that have catalog-listed color varieties, unless the differences are very obvious, i.e. one red the other green.

Don

 

Postally used multiples of the $5 value are not easy to find.

Don