The Postal Commemorative Society sells official stamp panels usually as part of a collection that can be put into a book. They don't sell individual stamps or panes of stamps. One of their collections is first day covers, in which you receive every first day cover that is issued for as long as you subscribe.

They recently started lighthouse panels. These do look interesting, but they charge per page and some of the pages have stamps and other pages are just a drawing of a lighthouse. Is this what you received in the mail today?


The official U.S. stamp catalog is called USA Philatelic. It is the official source for U.S. Postal Stamps from the United States Postal Service. They are selling the new Southeastern Lighthouses stamps.

I ordered several panes of 20 stamps, the postcard booklet, the set of five first day covers, and a matted keepsake. When I ordered the matted keepsake the catalog didn't describe it and only listed one. I received the picture of Cape Henry with the 5 stamps below. The catalog I received today shows that they have matted keepsakes for all 5 of the stamps.

The post office first day covers are very inexpensive - only $3.75 for the set of five. The panes of 20 stamps cost exactly what 20 stamps would cost and no more.

Here is a link to a picture of the matted keepsakes: http://shop.usps.com/images/selighthouses_matted_f.jpg

Heres a link to the U.S. Post Office Postal Store. Scroll to lighthouses and click on the word lighthouse:
http://shop.usps.com/cgi-bin/vsbv/postal_store_non_ssl/home.jsp

Scroll to the bottom to see descriptions of lighthouse stamps, first day covers, matted keepsakes, etc.

Suzanne