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Phil,
I remember Mekeels. I did not know they were still in business.
Was it a good show? Show us a few treasures you bought there when you get time.
Linus
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Hi Linus, yeah imagine a little outfit like that can survive where the big ones failed. The show was just so so nothing too exciting...i did get this Dutch Indies first DC3 flight to the Hague for a fair price. The DC3 changed everything about long distance flying.
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John Dunn has purchased the assets of Stamps and Meekel's and continued publishing it. A lot of the content is republished articles from past issues.
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I remember when I had just started collecting stamps about four years prior to getting my first, as it was called then, "Linn's Stamp Weekly". At the time, it was a fairly thick paper and was published every week!! The last Linn's I saw was about 10 years ago, give or take, and it was just a thin paper and published monthly if I remember correctly? Come to think of it, the last editions I did see were in a 'magazine' format.
I dropped Linn's when it got so expensive to have sent here to Canada.
Chimo
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"Stamps" magazine is what I read when I started collecting in earnest as a teenager until it shut down. I read Linn's once in a while, but it wasn't as easy for me to get in my town. Nice to hear it's come back around.
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Linn's is still a weekly. Non-US subscribers can get the digital issues relatively inexpensively.
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I still read Linn's but like some others mentioned, it's not like it used to be. It used to be more of a broadsheet paper with a lot more pages every week than what it is now. That's before Amos decided to merge Scott's Stamp Monthly with Linn's, and now once a month features a more deluxe version of Linn's to include a lot of the content Scott's Stamp Monthly used to have. I also used to enjoy Stamp Collector newspaper, which was published out of Oregon. I had a subscription to it many years ago. As far as Mekeel's goes, I don't find it worth subscribing to...as someone mentioned, it features a lot of reprints of old Mekeel's articles. If I'm going to subscribe to a "newspaper" I want fairly current news rather than content published 50 or 75 years ago. I can get that content in other ways.
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Back in the seventh decade of the last century I used to get Linns, MeKeels and Stamps Magazines! I was in my teens and had a junior collectors column in all three. No pay but I got the magazines for free.
I lost contact with the hobby in the 1980s, and later on I'd pick up an occasional Linns in the local coin and stamp shop, usually when I was going to do business travel. Right now I don't receive any paper publications about stamps.
I subscribe to two model car magazines and a couple antique car magazines and never get around to reading them.
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Found these hidden in my stash. I'm sorry the images are big. I scanned them at the lowest possible dpi.
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Sad but true....
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"If I'm going to subscribe to a "newspaper" I want fairly current news rather than content published 50 or 75 years ago. I can get that content in other ways.
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I have no issue in principle of republishing articles. For newer to collecting people, they have never seen most anything published in the past and never will. Given the circulation of Linn's, most collectors never see their current content.
I agree that the just republishing articles without updating out of date content is counter productive. However, the content is mostly as relevant (facts do not change). I am fairly new to worldwide collecting so anything related to worldwide is new to me.
The best articles written over the history of stamps are stashed away in libraries and not readily available to most.
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Always fun to find/read some of the old issues from way
back when, of magazines related to any of our hobbies!
I have some old issues of "STAMPS" magazine somewhere -
I'll see if I can scan one or two to post here later.
Kelleher's has been giving free subscriptions for the asking
to their magazine, "KELLEHER'S STAMP COLLECTOR'S QUARTERLY"
A lot of ads of course, but also some good articles are always included.
Here is a scan of their cover, and for those who might be interested, the info regarding a free subscription;
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While their are a couple of good writers/contributors to Kelleher's their are also some very 'less-than-respectable' authors who's contributions have to be questioned. In my opinion their inclusion casts a shadow over the entire publication. For example how does Greg Manning column get respected when he has committed crimes against the hobby?
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2009/comp20965.pdf
Little wonder they offer it at no charge, 'Read articles and opinions of people who have committed fraud in our hobby' should be their byline.
Don
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Nobody has mentioned Global Stamp News, yet. Did anybody read it? I had a subscription to it in the early 90s. They are now defunct, but Herrick Stamp Company has obtained the rights to reprint their articles. You can see an index of the currently available articles here:
https://www.herrickstamp.com/gsn_articles.php
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People whine about the demise of this hobby. Then look at Kelleher's publication... free to everyone (they just started sending it to me, I don't know where they got my info). There's a lot of money being spent there, so they must be making a lot of money.
In contrast, the entire model car hobby doesn't have, at any price, a magazine this slick! Nor do the model manufacturers, or any dealers have the funds to do so!
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You can read some Kellehers Mags online here
http://db.kelleherauctions.com/php/kcc.php
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I accept that Kelleher's publication is a marketing tool despite the statements about giveback. The articles stand on their own. Several of John Hotchner's articles were good.
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Dots per inch (dpi) only has significance when you want to print an image. 300 dpi seems to be about right for most such images. Dpi has little to do with how an image is displayed on a computer.
Think in terms of pixels when you're readying an image for the internet. Images I post her on Stamporama are generally 72dpi and between 600 and a thousand pixels in width. That gives you a sharp image plenty large enough to show detail.
Here are two visually identical images. The first was scanned and exported at 300 dpi, the second at 72dpi:
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I subscribed to Mekeel's in the 1960s, and I'm happy to hear that some of the old content is being re-purposed.
I don't collect new issues, so much of the content of much of the philatelic press leaves me cold.
I find the specialty journals of the specialty clubs much richer reading, even for specialties that I do not collect.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who received the first two issues of Kelleher's house organ, but must have missed the "subscribe or you're gone" message)
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i must have missed the Kellerher ultimatum also...i never asked them for a copy and i must have received 4 or 5 of them. i no longer save everything...now i am more into recycling.
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At the Albany paper show Saturday i was pleasantly surprised to see complimentary copies of the July 27 Mekeels & Stamps magazine. Ita a small magazine that has been published continuosly since 1891. It has survived while so many other stamp magazines have been lost.
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Phil,
I remember Mekeels. I did not know they were still in business.
Was it a good show? Show us a few treasures you bought there when you get time.
Linus
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Hi Linus, yeah imagine a little outfit like that can survive where the big ones failed. The show was just so so nothing too exciting...i did get this Dutch Indies first DC3 flight to the Hague for a fair price. The DC3 changed everything about long distance flying.
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John Dunn has purchased the assets of Stamps and Meekel's and continued publishing it. A lot of the content is republished articles from past issues.
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I remember when I had just started collecting stamps about four years prior to getting my first, as it was called then, "Linn's Stamp Weekly". At the time, it was a fairly thick paper and was published every week!! The last Linn's I saw was about 10 years ago, give or take, and it was just a thin paper and published monthly if I remember correctly? Come to think of it, the last editions I did see were in a 'magazine' format.
I dropped Linn's when it got so expensive to have sent here to Canada.
Chimo
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"Stamps" magazine is what I read when I started collecting in earnest as a teenager until it shut down. I read Linn's once in a while, but it wasn't as easy for me to get in my town. Nice to hear it's come back around.
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Linn's is still a weekly. Non-US subscribers can get the digital issues relatively inexpensively.
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I still read Linn's but like some others mentioned, it's not like it used to be. It used to be more of a broadsheet paper with a lot more pages every week than what it is now. That's before Amos decided to merge Scott's Stamp Monthly with Linn's, and now once a month features a more deluxe version of Linn's to include a lot of the content Scott's Stamp Monthly used to have. I also used to enjoy Stamp Collector newspaper, which was published out of Oregon. I had a subscription to it many years ago. As far as Mekeel's goes, I don't find it worth subscribing to...as someone mentioned, it features a lot of reprints of old Mekeel's articles. If I'm going to subscribe to a "newspaper" I want fairly current news rather than content published 50 or 75 years ago. I can get that content in other ways.
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Back in the seventh decade of the last century I used to get Linns, MeKeels and Stamps Magazines! I was in my teens and had a junior collectors column in all three. No pay but I got the magazines for free.
I lost contact with the hobby in the 1980s, and later on I'd pick up an occasional Linns in the local coin and stamp shop, usually when I was going to do business travel. Right now I don't receive any paper publications about stamps.
I subscribe to two model car magazines and a couple antique car magazines and never get around to reading them.
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Found these hidden in my stash. I'm sorry the images are big. I scanned them at the lowest possible dpi.
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Sad but true....
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"If I'm going to subscribe to a "newspaper" I want fairly current news rather than content published 50 or 75 years ago. I can get that content in other ways.
"
I have no issue in principle of republishing articles. For newer to collecting people, they have never seen most anything published in the past and never will. Given the circulation of Linn's, most collectors never see their current content.
I agree that the just republishing articles without updating out of date content is counter productive. However, the content is mostly as relevant (facts do not change). I am fairly new to worldwide collecting so anything related to worldwide is new to me.
The best articles written over the history of stamps are stashed away in libraries and not readily available to most.
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re: Mekeels & Stamps magazine
Always fun to find/read some of the old issues from way
back when, of magazines related to any of our hobbies!
I have some old issues of "STAMPS" magazine somewhere -
I'll see if I can scan one or two to post here later.
Kelleher's has been giving free subscriptions for the asking
to their magazine, "KELLEHER'S STAMP COLLECTOR'S QUARTERLY"
A lot of ads of course, but also some good articles are always included.
Here is a scan of their cover, and for those who might be interested, the info regarding a free subscription;
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re: Mekeels & Stamps magazine
While their are a couple of good writers/contributors to Kelleher's their are also some very 'less-than-respectable' authors who's contributions have to be questioned. In my opinion their inclusion casts a shadow over the entire publication. For example how does Greg Manning column get respected when he has committed crimes against the hobby?
https://www.sec.gov/litigation/complaints/2009/comp20965.pdf
Little wonder they offer it at no charge, 'Read articles and opinions of people who have committed fraud in our hobby' should be their byline.
Don
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re: Mekeels & Stamps magazine
Nobody has mentioned Global Stamp News, yet. Did anybody read it? I had a subscription to it in the early 90s. They are now defunct, but Herrick Stamp Company has obtained the rights to reprint their articles. You can see an index of the currently available articles here:
https://www.herrickstamp.com/gsn_articles.php
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People whine about the demise of this hobby. Then look at Kelleher's publication... free to everyone (they just started sending it to me, I don't know where they got my info). There's a lot of money being spent there, so they must be making a lot of money.
In contrast, the entire model car hobby doesn't have, at any price, a magazine this slick! Nor do the model manufacturers, or any dealers have the funds to do so!
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You can read some Kellehers Mags online here
http://db.kelleherauctions.com/php/kcc.php
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I accept that Kelleher's publication is a marketing tool despite the statements about giveback. The articles stand on their own. Several of John Hotchner's articles were good.
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Dots per inch (dpi) only has significance when you want to print an image. 300 dpi seems to be about right for most such images. Dpi has little to do with how an image is displayed on a computer.
Think in terms of pixels when you're readying an image for the internet. Images I post her on Stamporama are generally 72dpi and between 600 and a thousand pixels in width. That gives you a sharp image plenty large enough to show detail.
Here are two visually identical images. The first was scanned and exported at 300 dpi, the second at 72dpi:
Bob
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I subscribed to Mekeel's in the 1960s, and I'm happy to hear that some of the old content is being re-purposed.
I don't collect new issues, so much of the content of much of the philatelic press leaves me cold.
I find the specialty journals of the specialty clubs much richer reading, even for specialties that I do not collect.
Cheers,
/s/ ikeyPikey (who received the first two issues of Kelleher's house organ, but must have missed the "subscribe or you're gone" message)
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i must have missed the Kellerher ultimatum also...i never asked them for a copy and i must have received 4 or 5 of them. i no longer save everything...now i am more into recycling.
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