LSN Newsletter

Issue 14: January 14, 2010

Kicking off 2010!

The new year is keeping us pretty busy at Linn's. The United States Postal Service issued more than two dozen postal stationery varieties in January, along with two new postage stamps showing daffodils and snowboarding.

This month's newsletter includes an article about the upcoming Pony Express sesquicentennial, another about stamps telling the story of the decade just ended, a feature about the evolution of calendars as illustrated on stamps, plus a preview of the next Scott Stamp Monthly.

A happy and prosperous New Year to all!

Jay Bigalke
Linn's Online Editor

United States issues two stamps, 28 stationery items in January

Two United States stamps and 28 collectible stationery varieties will be issued in January. (More...)

The Pony Express anniversary

Everyone has heard of the famous Pony Express, but few are aware that the original express mail service lasted just a year and a half, from April 1860 to October 1861. (More...)

Linn's Stamp News provides stamp images you can use as computer desktop wallpaper. This month Linn's features a 70-ore 1975 stamp from Faeroe Islands (Scott 11) showing Sandoy cliffs, with an illustration engraved by Czeslaw Slania. (View)

Collecting early Czechoslovakia in March Scott Stamp Monthly

The March issue of Scott Stamp Monthly features a guide to collecting Czechoslovakia's first stamp issue, known as the Hradcany issue (More...)

A look at the first decade of the 21st century on stamps

Many of the events, transitions and tragedies of the first decade of the 21st century have already been commemorated on stamps. (More...)

Happy New Year
through space and time

Happy New Year! At least we all hope so. But what exactly is a year, how did they come to be numbered, and why do we celebrate the transition from one year to the next? (More...)

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