Inside Linn’s: A trio of fundraising appeals using certified mail

By Charles Snee

The April 7 digital-only issue of Linn’s Stamp News will be available to subscribers Saturday, March 22. While you wait for your issue to arrive in your inbox, enjoy these three quick glimpses of exclusive content available only to subscribers.

A trio of fundraising appeals using certified mail

In Modern U.S. Mail, Richard L. Beecher looks closely at three fundraising appeals sent via certified mail that feature colorful frankings of stamps. By the time the cover shown above was mailed in February 1984, the certified mail fee had increased to 75¢ and was paid with a trio of tagged 25¢ Paul Revere coil stamps. The tagged 25¢ Paul Revere coil was the last Liberty series stamp still available at post offices when this cover was mailed. The other two covers that Beecher discusses are just as interesting, so be sure to read the entire column.

APS hosts a variety of stamp album pages

Computers and Stamps columnist William F. Sharpe highlights some of the eye-catching album pages that are hosted on the website of the American Philatelic Society. Included are album pages for United States stamps issued from 2009 to 2024. The 2024 album is available only to APS members. The rest of the albums may be downloaded for free. According to Sharpe, “The album for 2023 U.S. issues is 30 pages and contains pages that describe each stamp in some detail and pages that display an image of each stamp with Scott catalog numbers.” Throughout the column, Sharpe provides useful tips for accessing and printing the album pages.

Stamp Market Tips: Overprint error on Lesotho postage due stamps

In their tip of the week, Stamp Market Tips columnists Henry Gitner and Rick Miller highlight an interesting overprint error that occurred on two 1966 postage due stamps from Lesotho. “The priciest stamps of Lesotho are two postage due error stamps issued Nov. 1, 1966,” Gitner and Miller explain. “The stamps were produced by overprinting ‘Lesotho’ on postage due stamps of Basutoland (Scott J1-J2). The name of the country is misspelled ‘Lseotho’ in the error overprints (J1a-J2a).”

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