Would Like To Review These 2 George Washington Stamps Design A140 With Community

Bought some old postcards, and extra excited as most had early 1900s stamps. Still looking through them. To start I'll start with one question today. I'm confused by 2 cards that appear almost identical. It almost appears as if a pair of stamps are vertical, rather than single (vertical). Seems silly, but something doesnt seem right. The perforations are 11 X 11, 19 X 22 on all the stamps I will show in the pics. Dates are in 1917 & 1918. Then, figuring out either 544 or 545~~ it doesnt go in either category.

Hello TJA1523!

These are the P.11 Scott 498e booklet pane stamps (one is a single and one is a pair).

Cheers, Dave

Your pair comes from a booklet - the key is the straight edges at the left and right sides of the pair. Thus it is Scott 498, being the only perf 11 booklet in panes of 6.
Your single stamp is likely to be this also.

Oh wow thanks I'll go look that up now.

Booklet stamps like 498e are traditionally collected in full panes (like John Becker's pic) or complete booklets, not as singles or pairs. However, if desired one can collect them in any form they like!

That really threw me. Thank you. Just a side note. I thought it was interesting on the 1918 card the writer was talking about the flu. I think that was the big year for it. I'll be back with my next one. Thanks John and Rhett

The 1918 flu pandemic.

I have a post card (somewhere) from 1918 in which a college student causally mentions that he might have just caught the flu. I hope he got though it OK but of course will never know.

I have an autobiographical sketch written in Armenian by my immigrant grandfather, who mentions catching "enfultza" shortly after the war ended, with a recurrence in January 1920. On his third day in New York Hospital, the doctors predicted that he would die, but the next day he started to recover.