A Counterfeit, Errors, & a Letter Bomb

Friday, January 23, 2026 - 7:00pm

Location: Prairie Star Restaurant's Event Center at Meadowlark

Tim Lindemuth, Meadowlark Passport member and longtime journalist for K-State, will discuss "A Counterfeit, Errors, and a Letter Bomb," seven treasures from his international gold-medal-winning stamp collection on Friday, Jan. 23, at 7 p.m. in the Event Center. His exhibit of the 20-cent Flag Stamp Over the Supreme Court has won awards at the international philatelic competitions at San Francisco 1997, Washington 2006, and New York 2016.

Lindemuth will be displaying the "20c Flag Spliced to the 17c Auto," the famous unique error of all U.S. postage stamp production that is pictured in four books.

The envelope was X-rayed for containing a letter bomb involves Salman Rushdie, author of "The Satanic Verses," the fatwa of Iran's Shia leader, the Grand Ayatollah Khomeini, and Penguin Books of Great Britain.