LINPEX
LINPEX 2017
LINPEX 2017 will be held Saturday and Sunday, February 25–26, 2017, at Country Inn & Suites, Lincoln, Nebraska. Check back here for more details as they are finalized.
LINPEX 2016
Update
The information here presents a snapshot of LINPEX 2016, which was held February 27–28. 2016.
Dates and Times
Saturday and Sunday, February 27–28, 2016
Saturday, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST
Sunday, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CST.
Place
Country Inn & Suites
5353 N. 27th St.
Lincoln Nebraska 68521
Reservations: +1.800.830.5222 or 402.476.5353
Web: Reservations
Directions:
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Price and Accommodations
- Free admission
- Free parking
- Barrier-free access.
Show Attractions
The show features a variety of offerings:
- Eight Dealers in Stamps and Philatelic Items
- 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 Honoring the Sesquicentennial of the birth of Black Elk (illustration below).
Collection Evaluations
Many times a relative inherits or receives a collection or accumulation of stamps from another relative. It can be confusing to try to figure out what to do with that box or those boxes. Options include becoming a collector (!), selling, donating, or using the stamps.
Knowledgeable members of the Lincoln Stamp Club can take a look at your holdings and give you some idea about the directions that make sense to take. This is not a formal appraisal, but a free assessment to help you make a better informed choice.
The Evaluations Team will be present throughout the whole show. If you need assistance to bring your accumulation into the show hall, please visit with one of the Club members at Welcome Table inside the main door.
Beginners’ Table
One of the great joys of stamp collecting, one that never gets old, is the hunt. The Beginners’ Table will satisfy your desire to hunt for the stamps you want. There will be thousands upon thousands of stamps on tables with enough chairs for everyone to have a seat and to hunt. The Club will also sell gallon bags of stamps you can take home for later.
Dealers
FROSTY CHAPMAN
Art with Postage-stamp Themes
Lincoln, Neb.
ED EAKINS
EZ Ed’s Stamps
9642 109th Ave.
Ottumwa, IA 52501
641.682.0166
ezedus@mchsi.com.
STEVE HENDERSON
1987 Pine Mesa Grove
Colorado Springs, CO 80918-3654
719.528.1934
Vshenderson@aol.com.
TERRY HOLDRIDGE
Iowa Stamps and Coins
Back of Book, Booklets, U.S. Classics, Coils, Confederate States, Mail Sales, U.S. Sheets, United States, and Year Sets
PO Box 77
Ankeny, IA 50021
515.964.1202
iowasc@netins.net
www.iowastamps.com.
ALAN LEMKE
Al’s Stamps & Collectibles
1110 15th Ave. West
Spencer, Iowa 51301
Phone: 712.262.4940
alanlemke@SMUnet.net.
JOE RENDE
Boys Town
909 Renee Ave.
Papillon, NE 68046
402-592-4904
jrende4204@aol.com
http://www.boystown.org.
DALE SMITH
Stamp Smith
Topicals, Worldwide, and U.S. Stamps and Plateblocks
1212 NE 96th Terrace
Kansas City, MO 64155
Phone 816.734.4536
smidale@umkc.edu.
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS
Publishers of Black Elk Speaks
1111 Lincoln Mall
Lincoln, NE 68588-0630
Phone 800.848.6224
customerservice@longleafservices.org
www.nebraskapress.unl.edu.
JIM WOODS
Woodson’s Stamps
PO Box 77
Boys Town, NE 68010
Work: 402.333.1589
Home: 402.333.9382.
Show Announcement
Lincoln Stamp Show Warmly Welcomes Postage Stamp Enthusiasts of All Ages
Collectors of postage stamps from the United States and around the world will find dealers and exhibits that match up with their interests at a public stamp show—LINPEX 2016. The show is set for Saturday, February 27, 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST, and Sunday, February 28, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CST. Sponsored by the Lincoln Stamp Club, LINPEX will be held in the Omaha Room at Country Inn and Suites, 5353 N. 27th St., Lincoln. Parking and admission are free. The venue is barrier-free.
LINPEX will host eight stamp dealers and the U.S. Postal Service. Show visitors may browse and then buy mint and used U.S. and worldwide stamps, topical stamps, and postal history. On Saturday, the USPS Station will sell current U.S. stamps and use a special show cancel on any outgoing mail. The cancel is also available at Lincoln’s main post office for thirty days.
The show also offers no-cost evaluations of collections that members of the public may bring for knowledgeable Club members to review. The young and young at heart alike are welcome to spend hours digging through thousands of loose domestic and foreign stamps at the Beginners’ Table, where each stamp cost children a penny, while adults pay a nickel. Free handouts will introduce the American Philatelic Society and the Lincoln Stamp Club.
One-frame philatelic exhibits will entertain and educate, showing how collectors’ topics cover a wide diversity of interests, including beginning stamp collecting, honey bees, Christmas seals, colorful stamps of Central and South America, President Taft on 50¢ stamps, Mahatma Gandhi, and fish on Tanzanian stamps. These exhibits will show how Club members explore their individual interests.
The Club will release a special show cover that honors the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Black Elk, Lakota holy man. His life and wisdom gained recognition through the renowned book by John Neihardt, the Nebraska author of Black Elk Speaks. The University of Nebraska Press, publishers of this widely recognized book, will staff a display with copies for sale.
The cover features an image of Black Elk when he toured in London with Buffalo Bill Cody and a special cancel applied to a customized postage stamp featuring a young Black Elk.
Collectors desiring to obtain copies of the Black Elk covers may buy them at the show for $3.00. Individuals may order covers by mail for the same price, so long as each order includes a stamped, self-addressed envelope. Send orders to Joel Johnson, 3240 Sheridan Ct., Lincoln, NE 68506-6142.
Show Cover
LINPEX 2016 Show Cover Mockup
This cover marks the one-hundred-fiftieth anniversary of the birth of Black Elk, a holy man of the Lakota.
LINPEX 2016 Show Cover Insert
Publicity Portfolio
A high-resolution version of the show cover illustration and a media release are available for publicity uses:
- LINPEX2016Cover.tif [6.4 Mb]
- LINPEX2016Release.doc [1.5 Mb]
- LINPEX2016Poster.pdf [0.3 Mb].
Exhibits
LINPEX 2016 will feature a sixteen-frame philatelic exhibition of member’exhibits, showcasing their current collecting highlights and areas of philatelic exploration. The exhibits’ topics include the following:
- Colorful Early Stamps of Central and South America
Examples of colorful stamps from each of the twenty-one countries - Mahatma Gandhi: The Last of the Champions of Liberty
An exploration of the background, production, and uses—both philatelic and postal—of the U.S. Post Office Department’s 4¢ and 8¢ Champions of Liberty Series issues of 1961 - A School of Fishes: Postal Patrons’ Uses of the Tanzania Fish Definitive Series of 1967 to 1973
A survey of working uses of a long-running, post-independence series of definitive stamps - Exclusive Uses of the 50-cent Prexie
Covers franked only with the 50-cent prexie and combinations adding to 50 cents - The Honey Bee Coil of 1988 First Day
The stamp, first day ceremony, and different types of cachets and cancels - Postal Uses of the First Imperforate Washington–Franklin Issue
- First-Day, Homemade, and Other Covers
- Beginning Stamp Collecting
- U.S. Christmas Seals: The First 50 Years
An exhibit showing examples of the production, sales, and use of the U.S. Christmas seals from 1907 to 1956.
Media Highlights
- Lincoln Journal Star: Black Elk honored at annual stamp show
- LINPEX on Eventful.com
- LINPEX on Facebook
- Lincoln Convention and Visitors’ Bureau
- Lincoln Journal Star: Lincoln Stamp Show
- Omaha.com: Lincoln Stamp Show—Saturday
- Omaha.com: Lincoln Stamp Show—Sunday