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General Philatelic/Gen. Discussion : Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

 

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Tom in Exton, PA

20 Dec 2015
01:25:53pm

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I recently dug out my George Washington Bicentennial cover collection. Back in the day I thought I had every possible variety, then I saw a few I didn't have on Buckacover. So I bought them. That gets me thinking I may want to research and catalog what I can.

Would Linn's Stamp News, say 1931 and 1932 issues be available as scans? I want to be able to browse and keep any mention of event covers. I know back in the 1970s I borrowed a bound version of the 1932 Linn's from the APS library. I may do that again if I don't find it digitally.

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Sally

20 Dec 2015
01:46:46pm
re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

I don't know about issues back to the 1930s, but a subscription to Linn's used to allow one to view issues back one or two years. Then they changed how one accesses the digital edition, and the only digital editions available now are from May 2015 to current. I emailed Linn's and asked. Received an unhelpful reply that basically said "what you see is all there is". I have a hard time believing that past digital editions are gone, poof, unavailable...

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Silence in the face of adversity is the father of complicity and collusion, the first cousins of conspiracy..

24 Dec 2015
06:00:18pm
re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

Reading old newspaper accounts can be a very interesting although a time consuming avocation.
When I went to college the library had a microfiche set=up and all the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune editions back to the Lindbergh flight and subsequent kidnapping and death of his child.
I spent far too many evenings scanning through the pages and reading the commentary that interested me. However I believe it gave me a much broader idea of the depression, WW II and the events that led up to the Cold War.
I'd love to have an on line copy of Linn's and the Western Stamp Collector (Originally twice a week), which latter publication I feel would be the more interesting.
For many years I had subscriptions to both papers as well as Global Stamp News and Meekel's. However I let Meekel's drop for some reason and Global went out of business. I found that it took me fifteen or twenty minutes to read what was interesting in Linn's but well over an hour or more to dispose of Western. I suppose if I collected US and Canada unsullied mint stamps from stamp agencies, that might have been different.

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20 Jan 2016
04:48:20am
re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

Maybe the reason is a comment they made:

As it happens, stamp collecting is in decline; membership in the American Philatelic Society peaked, in 1988, at nearly fifty-eight thousand. By the end of last month, the rolls had shrunk to fewer than thirty-three thousand, even as the U.S. population has increased by nearly a third. The ranks of hardcore collectors, mostly older men, are thinning. For the young, postage stamps can hardly compete with smart phones.



For the most part, stamp prices have also been stagnant or in decline, with some specimens worth less than their value as postage; this is especially true of mass-produced mid-century stamps. “There simply aren’t enough new collectors around to add this type of material to a collection, and most of the established collectors have already filled their album spaces with such stamps,” Charles Snee, the editor of Linn’s Stamp News, told me in an e-mail.

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20 Jan 2016
10:11:52am
re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

In December - trying to help someone who could not find a particular issue from CY 2000 - I found articles from several other issues from that year.

I asked, and was told that there was a server crash, hence the spotty results.

And, speaking of results:

I find it best to search from outside of the the site, using the format:

topic site:www.linns.com

In this case:

event cover site:www.linns.com

or, to narrow things a bit:

"event cover" site:www.linns.com

For example, the search string { "event cover" 1959 site:www.linns.com } returns:

www.linns.com/en/.../collect-intriguing-and-pretty-illustrated-mail.html
Aug 1, 2005 - Figure 2. A 1959 Australian cacheted event cover for the Ballaarat Begonia Festival and its helicopter mail. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 3.

While the search string { event cover 1931 site:www.linns.com }

www.linns.com/.../ahoy-matey--a-short-history-of-u-s--naval-covers.htm...
Jun 30, 2003 - A cover postmarked aboard the USS McFarland (DD 237) on Feb. ... 8, 1931, is provided by a straightline datestamp struck inside the dater ... the chief of naval operations forbade the canceling of event covers for collectors.

No, this is not what you were hoping for, but if you pursue this route, please collect the article dates & URLs & titles in a spreadsheet.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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Tom in Exton, PA
20 Dec 2015
01:25:53pm

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I recently dug out my George Washington Bicentennial cover collection. Back in the day I thought I had every possible variety, then I saw a few I didn't have on Buckacover. So I bought them. That gets me thinking I may want to research and catalog what I can.

Would Linn's Stamp News, say 1931 and 1932 issues be available as scans? I want to be able to browse and keep any mention of event covers. I know back in the 1970s I borrowed a bound version of the 1932 Linn's from the APS library. I may do that again if I don't find it digitally.

Thanks!

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Sally
20 Dec 2015
01:46:46pm

re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

I don't know about issues back to the 1930s, but a subscription to Linn's used to allow one to view issues back one or two years. Then they changed how one accesses the digital edition, and the only digital editions available now are from May 2015 to current. I emailed Linn's and asked. Received an unhelpful reply that basically said "what you see is all there is". I have a hard time believing that past digital editions are gone, poof, unavailable...

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24 Dec 2015
06:00:18pm

re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

Reading old newspaper accounts can be a very interesting although a time consuming avocation.
When I went to college the library had a microfiche set=up and all the New York Times and New York Herald Tribune editions back to the Lindbergh flight and subsequent kidnapping and death of his child.
I spent far too many evenings scanning through the pages and reading the commentary that interested me. However I believe it gave me a much broader idea of the depression, WW II and the events that led up to the Cold War.
I'd love to have an on line copy of Linn's and the Western Stamp Collector (Originally twice a week), which latter publication I feel would be the more interesting.
For many years I had subscriptions to both papers as well as Global Stamp News and Meekel's. However I let Meekel's drop for some reason and Global went out of business. I found that it took me fifteen or twenty minutes to read what was interesting in Linn's but well over an hour or more to dispose of Western. I suppose if I collected US and Canada unsullied mint stamps from stamp agencies, that might have been different.

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Charlie2009

20 Jan 2016
04:48:20am

re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

Maybe the reason is a comment they made:

As it happens, stamp collecting is in decline; membership in the American Philatelic Society peaked, in 1988, at nearly fifty-eight thousand. By the end of last month, the rolls had shrunk to fewer than thirty-three thousand, even as the U.S. population has increased by nearly a third. The ranks of hardcore collectors, mostly older men, are thinning. For the young, postage stamps can hardly compete with smart phones.



For the most part, stamp prices have also been stagnant or in decline, with some specimens worth less than their value as postage; this is especially true of mass-produced mid-century stamps. “There simply aren’t enough new collectors around to add this type of material to a collection, and most of the established collectors have already filled their album spaces with such stamps,” Charles Snee, the editor of Linn’s Stamp News, told me in an e-mail.

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ikeyPikey

20 Jan 2016
10:11:52am

re: Old Linn's Stamp News available as scans?

In December - trying to help someone who could not find a particular issue from CY 2000 - I found articles from several other issues from that year.

I asked, and was told that there was a server crash, hence the spotty results.

And, speaking of results:

I find it best to search from outside of the the site, using the format:

topic site:www.linns.com

In this case:

event cover site:www.linns.com

or, to narrow things a bit:

"event cover" site:www.linns.com

For example, the search string { "event cover" 1959 site:www.linns.com } returns:

www.linns.com/en/.../collect-intriguing-and-pretty-illustrated-mail.html
Aug 1, 2005 - Figure 2. A 1959 Australian cacheted event cover for the Ballaarat Begonia Festival and its helicopter mail. Click on image to enlarge. Figure 3.

While the search string { event cover 1931 site:www.linns.com }

www.linns.com/.../ahoy-matey--a-short-history-of-u-s--naval-covers.htm...
Jun 30, 2003 - A cover postmarked aboard the USS McFarland (DD 237) on Feb. ... 8, 1931, is provided by a straightline datestamp struck inside the dater ... the chief of naval operations forbade the canceling of event covers for collectors.

No, this is not what you were hoping for, but if you pursue this route, please collect the article dates & URLs & titles in a spreadsheet.

Cheers,

/s/ ikeyPikey

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