Sealed With A Song

A delightful letter arrived this summer from Alfred Frankenstein in Munich, sent with a Lotte Lehmann stamp! Yes! if you have German connections, get them to send you Lehmann stamps.
If you have no pen pals there, write for an order form to: Deutsche Bundespost, Postamt 1, Versandstelle für Postwertzeichen, Postfach 2000, 6000 Frankfurt I, Germany.

It's a 180 pf. stamp (almost a dollar). If you want to try to bypass the form, send either a cashier's check or an international money order (made out to Deutsche Bundespost), and allow a couple of dollars for postage and handling. The order number of the stamp is Postwertzeichen-Nr.1024, Lotte Lehmann. A check for $50 bought 52 stamps. -JS

Frank Manhold, in Munich, sent first daycovers of the Lehmann stamp which includes its issue date (13 July 89) and information about the artist. It was designed by Professor Gerd Aretz from a black & white photo. It was etched by Jacek Kanior. The first day cover has accurate biographical information and was issued both as a normal German and a special Berlin stamp. [At that time West Berlin was a postal area of West Germany.] The order number is 1112, ETB Nr. 12/1989 Frauen der deutschen Geschichte. The cost is [in 1989 was] DM 4.70, approximately $2.50.

Now we should encourage Austria and the US to issue Lehmann stamps. That's not an idle suggestion; we avid Lehmann fans can make things happen. We can request the local library to carry Lehmann books and records or suggest that our classical radio station present a LL tribute. -GH