New Lincoln Stamp

Ok so I bought two sheets today. To be honest I felt the stamps were rather dull and lacked an eye catching appeal. I loved the subject and was looking forward to this issue.

I guess I was hoping for an attractive boarder. The colors are dull and it is hard to pick up the images at a first look. I think they could have done a much better job with these four stamps.

BTW if you want a block of four different stamps you will be disappointed. They will only come as a strip of four.

I bought two panes today also. I thought they were nice looking - but I agree, not super.

I was surprised about the strip layout also.

I also was hoping for an attractive selvage border. Yes, block collector would be disappointed. I think they were trying for a format like the Ben Franklin 300th birthday stamps.

BTW, if you haven't already, take a gander at my 2009 Abraham Lincoln cover topic. I will be adding to it as more covers come in.

While the colors are rather somber, overall, I think the sheet is a very creditable effort from the designers. I was going to get a strip of 4, but when I saw the sheet, bought the entire sheet.

I hope they sell this in the post office that I usually go to in San Francisco....

John, it's 20+ miles round trip for me to go to the PO so I just buy from the USPS Fulfilment Center (http://shop.usps.com/webapp/wcs/sto...alogId=10152). It only costs a dollar to ship and I usually have my order within three working days. They have the Lincolns and a bunch of other current and past issues.

I heard tonight at my club meeting that our main post office may have ran out of Lincoln stamps and on the 12th had a line 15 people deep from 8 am to 4:30 pm all day with 2 clerks just doing handback cancels with the pictorial postmark. They had to turn people away to close the doors. Plus the 2,000 limited edition set of 5 covers produced by the Illinois Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Commission sold out, proceeds are to go to the restoration and exhibit upgrades for the Lincoln-Herndon Law Office in Springfield IL that's a few yards from the Old State Capital where the ceremony took place.

Maybe these will outsell Elvis?

Yes, works for me. Does anyone else foresee a reprinting coming up?

Heck mine has so many she doesn't think she can sell them all.

If there is a reprinting, want to bet that it would be exactly the same?

I'm glad to see a modern issue with an appropriate subject matter. I hope they sell a gazillion panes and have to reprint three times. I'm seeing quite a few being used on the mail I'm receiving and I'm using them myself.

The postoffice nearby my place mentioned just this week that they were running low on lincoln stamps as early as now so maybe there will be reprinting

I am not a U.S. collector...when was the last re printing of a commemorative stamp ? It makes perfect sense that the Lincoln stamp would sell exceptionally well in the land of Lincoln..but I notice even the lowly Red Hook post office had the Lincoln stamp on display on the counter !! I have asked for certain commemoratives at my post office and the answer is..we did not order any or we would have to order them !

It must be a regional thing because the local supply is going as slow as the other commemoratives.

It is always nice to see them used for postage. I think I may have used them on a few letters sent to forum members.

I agree...maybe in some parts of the country...supply is low...in others ..it is not...but I hope that a reprinting is made soon