Mark Twain Stamp

Picked up a sheet of Mark Twain stamps today:



Although I'm no English major, I found it a bit curious that for a person who has been dead for more than a century, in the text on the reverse side of the sheet the USPS refers to Mark Twain in the present tense rather than the past tense as in "Mark Twain is the author..." rather than "Mark Twain was the author..."



Also, I'll concede that this one may be correct, but I also found it interesting that they refer to Twain's work "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" rather than "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn". I've checked the internet on that one, and it seems that depending on which edition you refer to, some of the books begin with "The" and others do not.

I know this may be "nitpicking", but I just wonder how the USPS handles proofreading these biographies before they are submitted as final copy.

proofreading???

They probably just copy from Wikipedia.

Reminds me of the Cornelius Krieghoff stamp issued by
Canada in 1972 honouring the Dutch (father German) painter.

On the stamp is was correct Krieghoff but on the
imprint in the margin of the 4 corners it was spelled
Kreighoff.

Something in the English language about e before i, except....
which obviously isn't the rule in German.

Hi lithograving

It is actually

i before e, except after c, but there are some exceptions.

Horamakhet

I find it even more interesting that the biography provides the years of birth and death for the pseudonym "Mark Twain" as 1835 and 1910, respectively, even though Samuel Clemens didn't begin his writing career until 1847 and didn't adopt the pen name Mark Twain until 1863.

Another interesting piece of trivia, per Wiki, the town where Mark Twain was born has a 2010 population of ZERO!

?
how often do you have your census? 5 years.?

US Census is every 10 years ... 1990, 2000, 2010, 2020, etc.

Thanks wt1
Ours...every 5
Our next on August 9th this year.


PS Thanks for the meaning of the cry "Mark Twain"...fascinating.

From my little cabin in the country
..and a cacophany of sound from a family of Kookaburras
it is the most magical bird sound one can hear.

To another cabin in 1948

The "laughing Kookaburra"
older Australian collectors may recall this sound
as a precursore to the latest black/white "Movietone News"
at cinemas. During and after the WW2.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ZbykXlg6Q

That Mark Twain Cabin cinderella is stamp #63 and there are a total of 64 stamps in the entire set. Do you have the others?

Yes, wt1
I <think> I have them all.
I have to check to make certain.

Do you have a list, so I may check them off?

Here's the list:

CALIFORNIA CENTENNIAL CINDERELLAS

1 The State Capitol
2 Golden Gate Bridge
3 Sutters Fort
4 Sutter's Mill
5 Sunday at the Mines
6 Fort Tejon
7 The Pony Express
8 Mission San Diego
9 Hangtown
10 Placer Mining
11 Hydraulic Mining
12 Dredger Gold Mining
13 Early San Francisco
14 Mission Santa Barbara
15 Mission Sonoma
16 Mission Carmel
17 Oldest Living Thing
18 Donner Monument
19 Santa Barbara
20 Capt. Charles Weber
21 World's Tallest Tree
22 Lotta Crabtree
23 Joshua Tree
24 Devils Postpile
25 Father Serra Cross
26 Hangman's Tree
27 James W. Marshall
28 Mt. Lassen - Volcano
29 Lola Montez
30 Bear Flag Republic
31 Chief Solano
32 Clear Lake
33 Columbia
34 John Augustus Sutter
35 Fort Millerton
36 Marshall Monument
37 Clipper Ships
38 Lake Arrowhead
39 Volcano
40 Chinese Joss House
41 Stockton
42 Movieland
43 Highest Point in U.S.
44 Lowest Point in U.S.
45 Yosemite
46 Statehood
47 Cotton Hall
48 Santa Barbara Courthouse
49 Santa Catalina Island
50 Bret Harte Cabin
51 Cllimatic Contrasts
52 Lake Tahoe
53 Winter Sports
54 California Indians
55 Hornitos
56 Mount Shasta
57 Old World Castles
58 The Arrowhead
59 Monterey Peninsula
60 The Salton Sea
61 Shasta Dam
62 San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
63 Mart Twain Cabin
64 Mount Diablo

You are amazing wt1.
I'll check and be back to you.

Yes wt1
have them all.
Thanks again for your work.

The envelope, too?



I wonder what other poster stamps the "International Poster Stamp Assn." of San Francisco produced? I cannot find very much info. about them.

Also found their warning interesting: "DO NOT AFFIX THESE STAMPS ON THE FRONT OF ENVELOPES."