LSN Newsletter

Issue 39: March 8, 2012

Spring into collecting!

A colorful new pair of United States stamps featuring blossoming cherry trees is bound to be popular with collectors and mailers alike. The Cherry Blossom Centennial stamps are the only new U.S. stamps expected in March.

Our newsletter features this month include photos from the first-day ceremonies for the John H. Johnson and Heart Health stamps, a precarious look at collecting worldwide stamps on the edge, and details of the first U.S. Olympic stamps issued 70 years ago.

Jay Bigalke
Linn's Online Editor

March reprieve for U.S. stamp collectors

One new stamp issue is scheduled for March, affording collectors a break following the deluge of U.S. stamps in January and February. (More...)

Publisher John H. Johnson honored

Johnson Publishing Co. in Chicago, Ill., hosted the Jan. 31 first-day ceremony for the new United States John H. Johnson commemorative forever stamp. (More...)

Linn's Stamp News provides stamp images you can use as computer desktop wallpaper. This month Linn's features the six-stamp souvenir sheet for Queen Elizabeth's diamond jubilee, issued by Great Britain in 2012. (View)

Heart Health ceremony at hospital

The Washington Hospital Center in Washington, D.C., hosted the Feb. 9 first-day ceremony for the new United States Heart Health commemorative forever stamp. (More...)

Stamps that take you to the edge

Whether you like to take your sports and tourism to the extreme or just live on the edge vicariously, several stamps issued over the last few years provide incentive — or perhaps disincentive for those with a fear or healthy respect of heights. (More...)

First U.S. Olympic Games stamps in 1932
The first Olympic Games stamps from the United States were issued 70 years ago, in 1932. (More...)

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