Inside Linn’s: Having fun with a collection of opportunity

By Charles Snee

The Jan. 15 digital-only issue of Linn’s Stamp News will be available to subscribers Saturday, Dec. 30. While you wait for your issue to arrive in your inbox, enjoy these three quick glimpses of exclusive content available only to subscribers. 

Having fun with a collection of opportunity

Rob Haeseler (1941-2017), a former Linn’s senior editor, introduced Charles Snee to a United States 1952 80¢ airmail stamp picturing Diamond Head in Hawaii not long after Snee came to work for Linn’s in 1999. A number of years later, Snee began forming what he terms a collection of opportunity comprised of contemporaneous on-cover uses of the Diamond Head airmail stamp. Shown here is one of the two covers Snee discusses in his article. The other, not pictured, has a subtle connection to Haeseler that Snee reveals near the end of the story.

Tip of the week: Mali 1983 airmail set

In their tip of the week, Stamp Market Tips columnists Henry Gitner and Rick Miller recommend a set of three airmail stamps and an airmail souvenir sheet of one picturing chess pieces set against a chessboard background that Mali issued in 1983. “The landlocked northwest African nation of Mali has issued a fair number of chess topical stamps,” Gitner and Miller explain.

Poland announces 2024 stamp subjects

“Poland’s post office, Polska Poczta, announced 18 subjects that will appear on 41 stamps in its 2024 program,” Linn’s reports. “Stamps marking 2024 anniversaries include a January issue for the 100th anniversary of Wladyslaw Grabski’s currency reform and an October issue for the 200th birth anniversary of artist Juliusz Kossak.” Other subjects scheduled for philatelic recognition include the 1794 Kosciuszko Uprising, the 1944 Warsaw Uprising, beneficial insects and Polish music stars.

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