LSN Newsletter

Issue 13: December 10, 2009

It's stamp poll time!

The year is drawing to a close, and that means it's time to participate in the annual Linn's U.S. Stamp Popularity Poll. Cast your vote for your favorite U.S. stamp of 2009, and tell us which ones you think should have been left on the Postal Service's drawing board.

This month's newsletter includes a couple of features with Christmas themes, another on the $2 James Madison stamp, and a preview of the upcoming February issue of Scott Stamp Monthly.

Happy holiday wishes to all!

Jay Bigalke
Linn's Online Editor

Cast a vote for your favorite
2009 U.S. stamps and stationery

The 2009 Linn's U.S. Stamp Popularity Poll, an annual tradition, is now underway. Voting continues through late February. (More...)

St. Nicholas without the
'Ho-ho-ho!'

Santa Claus — also known as old St. Nick — has become a universal secular symbol of the winter solstice celebration, but he does have a connection, however tenuous, with the Christian religious holiday of Christmas. (More...)

Linn's Stamp News provides stamp images you can use as computer desktop wallpaper. This month Linn's features three stamps from Canada's 1911-25 Admiral series depicting King George V. (View)

Behind the designs

In the February issue of Scott Stamp Monthly, George Amick, author of the Linn's U.S. Stamp Yearbook series, describes in detail the extraordinary efforts that went into the design process for four stamps to honor the 200th birthday of the 16th president of the United States. (More...)

A stamp countdown to
'The 12 Days of Christmas'

To purchase all 364 gifts mentioned in the Christmas carol The 12 Days of Christmas you would spend $87,402.81 in 2009, according to the Christmas index prepared annually by the PNC Financial Services Group of Pittsburgh. (More...)

Collecting the affordable
$2 James Madison stamp

Can you tell which $2 James Madison stamp has a value of $2,750, and which has a value of only $4? (More...)

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