The Stamp Collecting Report
A radio feature by Lloyd de Vries

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No catalogue catastrophe.

The Stamp Collecting Report, I’m Lloyd de Vries.

That sound you may have heard at stamp shows and club meetings was a sigh of relief: Two active stamp collectors, with backing from others, have purchased Linn’s Stamp News, the Scott Stamp Monthly magazine and the Scott catalogues from Amos Media. That company will retain its coin collecting publications and its stamp and coin supplies business.

The Scott books are the bible for U.S. stamp collectors, assigning the catalogue numbers and identifying varieties. Linn’s, a weekly, was once THE source of stamp collecting news. But over the past year, the newspaper has shrunk as advertisers and columnists abandoned it. The catalogues were delayed because of problems getting them printed. Cash flow seemed to be a problem.

It took most of a year to put the deal together. Meanwhile, stamp collectors have been holding their collective breath, waiting to see if the publications would survive.

And apparently, they will. The new publishers have big plans to modernize and expand, and collectors are rejoicing.

I’m Lloyd de Vries of The Virtual Stamp Club. For more on stamps and stamp collecting, and the latest on Linn’s and the Scott catalogues, visit virtual-stamp-club-dot-com.

The Stamp Collecting Report began in 1997 as a 60-second weekly feature distributed to CBS Radio Network stations by CBS News as part of its Weekend Feature Package. Eventually, longer versions were recorded for this website and a Christian evangelical shortwave service. The Report ended its CBS run in 2017 with only six repeats in some 1,040 weeks. It is now produced solely for The Virtual Stamp Club on an occasional basis.

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