Welcome
About the Club
Stamp collecting has a long and rich history. Once just a children’s hobby, it has grown to become a pastime enriching the lives of children, adults who casually accumulate interesting stamps and envelopes and avid philatelists who study the history, production and use of all things relating to the worldwide delivery of messages and parcels.
The Lincoln Stamp Club is a group of 50 or so individuals of all ages and interests who find the club, with its meetings, conversations and the other benefits of membership, an aid to enriching their hobby, their passion for philately.
So … welcome to the Lincoln Stamp Club. Check out the News about our meetings and events, see if the Resources inform your collecting, consider Membership or Contact us with a question. We’re glad that you share this passion for philately!
LINPEX 2014 Plans in the Works
The Lincoln Stamp Club will host LINPEX 2014 as part of the Club’s celebration of its fiftieth anniversary. More details will appear here as they become clear. Here is the information for planning calendars:
LINPEX 2014
Saturday and Sunday, February 22–23, 2014
Country Inn & Suites
5353 N. 27th St.
Lincoln Nebraska 68521
Reservations: +1.800.596.2375
Web: Reservations
Stamp Show Held in Lincoln February 23–24, 2013
LINPEX 2013 Recognized Emancipation Proclamation’s Sesquicentennial
In honor of the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of President Abraham Lincoln’s decision to issue the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863 , the Lincoln Stamp Club released a special commemorative envelope. This show cover featured the United States Postal Service’s new Emancipation Proclamation Sesquicentennial stamp, a show cancel using broken chains to symbolize the freedom of the slaves released from bondage by the proclamation, and a cachet. The cachet presents a profile of President Lincoln, based upon the statue by Daniel Chester French that stands to the west of Nebraska’s State Capitol in Lincoln,Nebraska. To the left of the president’s profile is an excerpt from the text of the proclamation:
… all persons held as slaves … shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free ….
You can read more about the history of the sculpture at http://capitol.org/building/history/lincoln-sculpture.
The show featured a variety of offerings:
- Dealers’ Tables
- Exhibits from Members’s Collections
- A Beginners’ Table with 5¢ stamps for adults and 1¢ stamps for youth
- Free Evaluations of Stamps and Collections
- U.S. Postal Service Station
- Show Cover Featuring the Emancipation Proclamation Stamp (sample above).
Details
LINPEX 2013 was held on Saturday, February 23, from 10:00 to 6:00 p.m., and Sunday, February 24, from 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
This is an updated location.
Quality Inn and Suites
1511 Center Park Road South
Lincoln, Nebraska
402.423.3131
Find out more about the event.
Covers for Sale
Each year the Lincoln Stamp Club produces one or more show covers with cachets to mark LINPEX, the show’s annual philatelic exposition. We have a limited number of covers from past shows available for purchase. Visit our LINPEX Covers page to see the covers and download an order form.
Updates
- Nebraska Revenue Stamps: View Presentation
- U.S. Back of the Book–Air Mail: View Presentation
News
- In crisis mode, again, over threatened post office
- At Hallam, post office at center of another storm
- In Memory of Alan Anderson
- LINPEX 2010 Award Winners
- LINPEX 2009 Award Winners
- Stamp ceremony kicks off Lincoln bicentennial celebration. This article appeared in the Lincoln Journal Star on Friday, Feb. 6, 2009.
- Lincoln stamps unveiled in–Where else?–Lincoln
- The Lincoln Stamp Club is presenting LINPEX 2009 Feb. 21-22, 2009. Find out more.
- Celebrate Abraham Lincoln, Obtain Covers
- The Lincoln Stamp Club was featured in the Lincoln Journal Star: “Four new stamps honor 200th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s birth.”