Oct 14, 2018 | Stamp History
By Ken Perkins Imagine, if you will, that you open the latest Linn’s Stamp News and read that the next new issue from the U.S. Postal Service is going to be a stamp honoring the Catholic religion. That stamp would be front page news. The controversy would keep...
Sep 16, 2018 | Sequoia Stamp Club
By Ken Perkins By Ken Perkins This handsome fellow is Ferdinand II, ruler of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies from 1830 to 1859. Created in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars in 1816 by the union of the realms of Naples and Sicily, the joint kingdom ruled all of...
Aug 29, 2018 | Sequoia Stamp Club
The San Francisco Maritime Museum building was built as a bathhouse in 1936 by the WPA; its interior is decorated with fantastic and colorful murals. The Steamship Room illustrates the evolution of maritime technology from wind to steam, and there are displays of...
Aug 20, 2018 | Sequoia Stamp Club
By Marsha Brandsdorfer Guns portrayed on dozens of U.S. and international stamps make a good topical collection. Guns have a long history, which Retired Navy Seal, Chris Kyle discusses in detail in his book, “American Gun: A History of the U.S. in Ten Fire Arms”...
Jul 30, 2018 | Sequoia Stamp Club
Jeremiah Hargraves, accompanied by his mother, was a guest at the Sequoia Stamp Club meeting in Redwood City on Tuesday, June 26, where he was presented with the third annual Collectors Scholarship, a $500 award given by the club to a graduate of Sequoia High School...
