Linn's Souvenir Sheet : 1937

Very nice commemoration sheet.

Never seen it before.

Great souvenir sheet Rod, where is the story behind the acquisition. I love to see your stuff posted as I can almost always guarantee it will be outside the mainstream and quite unusual. Thanks for posting - Jeff

The classic days(before my time) its amazing whats out there !!

rod, VERY beautiful Philatelic label!

If you are thinking of trading or selling this piece please shoot me an e-mail ...

Cheers

Gee, I am surprised at the reaction.
Whilst I would not part with it (sorry James)
it doesn't grab me the way British or European
centred cinderellas do.

Possibly because I don't have a long association with
US material, Linn's etc.
I think I have another Linn's SS in stock, I'll have to go for a rumble.

Can someone explain : "Founder of the Philatelic Agency" ?
what exactly is that?
Cheers.

Jeff,
this was amongst a $200 purchase from "revenuecollector" on SCF
a lovely assortment of stuff that will take me the next
12 months to catalogue.
Possibly the best interest material I have bought
in 10 years.
Many thanks to Revenuecollector.

Rod, unless I am mistaken it was the precursor to the United States Postal Stamp Fulfillment Agency that handles collectors requests for FDC, rolls and the like.

I see.
Thank you very much.

There must be more to the story on the suicide of Michael L. Eidsness, Jr., that I can't access for free from internet sources, but here's an abstract from The Washington Post:

Cheers

They honored him for jumping off the Memorial bridge ?..i am not a jumper..he could have retreated into his stamp room and lived another day !!

I saw the above quote out there, too, but never quite figured out what his "government post" was in 1932 and what the "incident" was that was embarrassing to the Roosevelt administration.

If it happened today, the media would be all over the story. Anyone know what may have occurred?

http://www.jamesmccusker.com/edu/article.cfm?id=49

http://jerryakatz.wordpress.com/
http://www.stampcampus.org/FDC/lesson2_4.htm

Here are links I found about his career, but none speculate.

Thanks for the information and links.

I have done some additional research myself and as I understand it, Michael L. Eidsness, Jr.'s resignation was that he resigned as the Superintendent of the Division of Stamps and Chief of the Philatelic Agency of the Post Office Department.

Still not exactly sure what the previous reference meant to him being "forced to resign over an incident that was an embarrassment to the Roosevelt administration."

Later news articles seems to have put a different spin on that comment as evidenced below, suggesting that changes prompted by the Roosevelt administration made him ask to be released.

I seems to recall that FDR was so involved in stamps, that he wanted to approve anything and everything related to stamps and no longer left it to the PO officials to deal with. It is purely speculation on my part, but if I were to gusss, I'd suggest that change had something to do with the resignation.

Brooklyn (NY) Daily Eagle (10/22/1933):



A follow up article suggested he was "retiring" from the office and would be "writing a book based on my observations and experiences".

Schenectady (NY) Gazette (11/06/1933):



And finally to fast forward to his untimely death in 1937, this article suggests he was despondent over ill health:

New York Post (08/03/1937):

i guess the clipping on suicide philatelist sums it up..its a shame,another man may have continued contributing to philately !