Inside Linn’s: Solo $1 Eugene O’Neill cover takes a 6,300-mile trip

Nov 20, 2025, 11 AM

By Charles Snee

The Dec. 8 digital-only issue of Linn’s Stamp News will be available to subscribers Saturday, Nov. 22. While you wait for your issue to arrive in your inbox, enjoy these three quick glimpses of exclusive content available only to subscribers.

Solo $1 Eugene O’Neill cover takes a 6,300-mile trip

Dollar-Sign Stamps columnist Charles Snee spotlights a registered cover franked with a single United States 1967 $1 Eugene O’Neill stamp that was mailed in April 1970 from Okinawa, Japan, to Valletta, Malta, a distance of approximately 6,325 miles. “Like many collectors of modern postal history, I particularly enjoy finding a cover bearing a solo use of a stamp that exactly pays a combination of postage and service fees,” Snee writes. Read the entire column to learn if the solo $1 O’Neill on the cover, pictured above, met Snee’s expectation.

Crossword puzzle: the United States Postal Service

Linn’s regularly publishes three games to entertain readers: Trickies, a word scramble puzzle by Joe Kennedy; a word search puzzle by D.E. Rubin; and a crossword puzzle by David Saks. In this week’s issue, Saks serves up a fun crossword focused on the U.S. Postal Service and its primary mission of delivering the mail. For example, clue 3 Down reads, “a four-wheeled cart used by city carriers to deliver mail.” Get your pencil sharpened and enjoy solving all 19 clues.

U.S. Stamp Notes: ’tis the season to celebrate Christmas philately

In U.S. Stamp Notes, John M. Hotchner opens his celebration of the Christmas holiday season with a 1¢ Jefferson postal card postmarked Jan. 14, 1949, that references Christmas seals issued by the Lutheran Hospital of Brooklyn, N.Y., as a means of fundraising. The hospital began issuing Christmas seals in 1922. He welcomes information from Linn’s readers who might have Christmas seals from the Lutheran Hospital of Brooklyn or if the hospital still offers seals today. His contact information is listed at the end of the column.

 

 

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