As part of our continued conversation with our readers, we like to ask Linn's Stamp News Twitter followers and Facebook fans to share stories about the philatelic acquisitions they've made recently.

Here is a recent purchase a fan told us about on Twitter:  

@LinnsStampNews several of these. I've been collecting covers related to Washington Crossing the Delaware for years pic.twitter.com/NR4Gh5m45w

— roy eddward (@roy18977) May 11, 2015

And here's another from Facebook:

Stamps and Philately: "I bought many new issues from postal administrations present at the international stamp fair 'Briefmarken-Messe 2015' in Essen, Germany. Also there I finally found South Ossetia's first postage stamps which were issued in 2013."