Inside Linn’s: Priority Mail stamp scores solo use trifecta

By Charles Snee

The Dec. 9 digital-only issue of Linn’s Stamp News will be available to subscribers Saturday, Nov. 23. While you wait for your issue to arrive in your inbox, enjoy these three quick glimpses of exclusive content available only to subscribers.

Priority Mail stamp scores solo use trifecta

In Dollar-Sign Stamps, Charles Snee performs a rate analysis on one of two seldom-seen solo uses of the United States 2018 $6.70 Byodo-In Temple Priority Mail stamp. “Does the single $6.70 Byodo-In Temple on each letter represent a coveted, properly paid solo use?” You’ll have to read the column to learn the answer.

A miniature pane mystery: missing straight edges

Wayne L. Youngblood, in The Odd Lot, looks at older U.S. stamps with straight edges, which he has a bit of a soft spot for. According to Youngblood, as a young inexperienced collector, “one of my favorite unsophisticated activities with older used United States stamps was to reconstruct miniature panes utilizing the stamps with naturally occurring straight edges found on the sides and corners of panes, with a fully perforated example in the center.” He illustrates such a pane using the 1926 2¢ Sesquicentennial Exposition stamp (Scott 627).

Stamp Market Tips: overprinted Canal Zone 1925 postage due stamps

In their tip of the week, Stamp Market Tips columnists Henry Gitner and Rick Miller suggest looking for the set of three overprinted Canal Zone 1925 postage due stamps (Scott J15-J17). “These stamps were first overprinted “Canal Zone” in black and then overprinted “Postage Due” in either red or blue,” Gitner and Miller explain. “The stamps are a good buy at up to 80 percent of Scott catalog value.”

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