By Charles Snee
The March 8th issue of Linn’s Briefmarken-News has just landed in the presses and will be mailed to subscribers on Monday, February 22nd. If you subscribe to the digital edition of Linn, you’ll be on the top 20 with Early Access on Saturday February 20. While you wait for your problem to get to your mailbox, enjoy these three quick snaps into exclusive content that subscribers only be available.
Bigfoot or dinosaur hunting?
Wayne Youngblood notes in The Odd Lot a recent bill introduced in the Oklahoma House of Representatives to officially introduce a Bigfoot season in the state. Youngblood’s online reflections on this strange law prompted a fellow hobbyist to create a humorous Bigfoot Cinderella label based on the $ 2 US duck stamp design from 1956. Youngblood also holds a “dinosaur hunting license issued under the authority of Al E. Oup, the Deputy Lizard Warden in Vernal, Utah, home of the Dinosaur National Monument, and some of the finest fossils found in North America.” The license, which could only be used in Uintah County, Utah, was folded and shipped from Steamboat Springs, Colorado to Detroit, Michigan in 1959. The terms of the license, as Youngblood explains, “were fairly generous because the license holder could bag up to eight prehistoric creatures. “What creatures do you ask? You have to read the column to find out.
Toast to the Wine on Stamps Study Unit
In Journal Entries, Michael Baadke offers an enticing review of the February issue of Enophilatelica, the quarterly newsletter of the Wine on Stamps Study Unit. Baadke highlights two articles: “One begins a history of cognac production in Armenia and the other contains information on how growers in the Bordeaux vineyards fight destructive pests.” Observe carefully that a 6,100 year old cave in Armenia shows evidence of the world’s first wine production. Baadke also directs readers to David Wolfersberger’s “Compilation of New Issues and New Discoveries on Older Postage Stamps” by Enophilatelica related to wine. If you like wine, be sure to drink the entire column and take the Wine on Stamps Study Unit.
Collectors forum: Czechoslovakian bazaar
The intention of the collector’s forum is to publish letters and requests for information exchange within the hobby. Linn’s editors give answers or partial answers if they are known. In this week’s column, a Louisiana collector came across an unusual card franked with a 120-haler mother-and-child semipost stamp from Czechoslovakia from 1919. According to the collector, “The stamp is on a sheet of paper with the heading“ Czechoslovak Bazaar ”for sale at the New York World’s Fair from October 20-28, 1940. The text at the bottom of the sheet reads: “For the good of the Czechoslovak refugees and the relief fund.” To find out more about this article, Linn turned to Ludvik Svoboda, President of the Society for Czechoslovak Philately, who gave a detailed and informative answer . Among other things, Svoboda states that the card “can be found with a number of the early Czechoslovakian postage stamps”. You can send your question to Collectors ‘Forum, Box 4129, Sidney, OH 45365, or email [email protected] using the subject line Collectors’ Forum.
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