Aloha stamp collectors!

Hawaii is celebrating its 50th anniversary of statehood in 2009. The islands have been featured on a number of U.S. stamps over the years, and this month’s newsletter has the information you need to start collecting them.

We also head into outer space to take a look at what’s been happening on Jupiter, and to pick up a couple postmarks to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the first moon landing.

September will bring us new U.S. stamps featuring a Thanksiving Day parade scene, actor Gary Cooper, and prominent Supreme Court justices. And the upcoming October issue of Scott Stamp Monthly will offer even more great stamp information and features for collectors.

Jay Bigalke
Linn's Online Editor

A festive parade of new U.S. stamps in September

The United States stamps scheduled for release in September cover a wide range of topics, but adding them to your collection won’t drain your hobby budget. (More...)

Visiting Hawaii via
U.S. stamps

If this year you are planning a staycation (staying at home rather than traveling elsewhere), you can at least visit our 50th state, Hawaii, on stamps. (More...)

Linn's Stamp News provides stamp images you can use as computer desktop wallpaper. This month Linn's features the Coral Reefs set of four 15¢ stamps, United States Scott 1827-30, issued in 1980. (View)

Machin codes and a stationery mystery featured in the October Scott Stamp Monthly

In the October issue of Scott Stamp Monthly, British Beat columnist Larry Rosenblum deciphers the nearly invisible codes on recently issued stamps in the popular British definitive series known as the Machins. (More...)

The biggest planet takes a big hit

On July 19, an amateur astronomer in Australia discovered a disturbance the size of Earth near Jupiter’s south pole. (More...)

Moon landing anniversary postmark

Kennedy Space Center, Fla., recently offered postmarks to celebrate the first men who walked on the moon. This year marks the 40th anniversary of the historic July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon landing. (More...)