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A spot of Hopps follow-up
This is unimportant—but it tickled me, and I like to see loose ends tied up.
The LPS Journal recently carried my article “Martin Giles, ‘Yes! we have no collectors’, LPS Journal, The Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society 7(4) (October-December 2024), 4-10”, centred on a letter to an Edward Hopps. In that article, I also looked at frequent recipients of paquebot covers bearing Liberian stamps.
One that I highlighted was Gus Lund, with covers through the 1970s-1980s. I noted that I also had paquebot covers to a “Barbara Lund” in the 1950s, and “Gustav Lund” in the 1930s, both in California. I speculated that they might have been his parents, in some kind of philatelic dynasty.
I have now come across two things in particular: (1) an obituary of Gus Lund and of his wife (Adrianne Zettel Lund), at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/seattletimes/name/adrianne-z-lund-obituary?id=28771013); and (2) a seller from India on eBay (“alphaomegaphilately”) currently offering about 200 paquebot covers from Gus Lund’s collection, in multiple lots, at about $1 per cover.
The critical point—that I had not guessed—was that Gus Lund died at the age of 100. He had been philatelically active across 87 years.
1950s Barbara was not his mother, but his daughter. The 1930s Gustav was Gus himself. We see covers to a succession of addresses following them (including Adrianne) all around the USA as Gus’s Chemistry studies at UC Berkeley and career with Shell Oil directed.
If only Gus had enjoyed a more Liberian focus, rather than just paquebot markings, this would have been a good story, but it is still nice to settle it. Wrong and yet right.
It seems right to log that update here in the Forum. Or is there a better way to handle corrections and follow-up?
The LPS Journal recently carried my article “Martin Giles, ‘Yes! we have no collectors’, LPS Journal, The Journal of the Liberian Philatelic Society 7(4) (October-December 2024), 4-10”, centred on a letter to an Edward Hopps. In that article, I also looked at frequent recipients of paquebot covers bearing Liberian stamps.
One that I highlighted was Gus Lund, with covers through the 1970s-1980s. I noted that I also had paquebot covers to a “Barbara Lund” in the 1950s, and “Gustav Lund” in the 1930s, both in California. I speculated that they might have been his parents, in some kind of philatelic dynasty.
I have now come across two things in particular: (1) an obituary of Gus Lund and of his wife (Adrianne Zettel Lund), at https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/seattletimes/name/adrianne-z-lund-obituary?id=28771013); and (2) a seller from India on eBay (“alphaomegaphilately”) currently offering about 200 paquebot covers from Gus Lund’s collection, in multiple lots, at about $1 per cover.
The critical point—that I had not guessed—was that Gus Lund died at the age of 100. He had been philatelically active across 87 years.
1950s Barbara was not his mother, but his daughter. The 1930s Gustav was Gus himself. We see covers to a succession of addresses following them (including Adrianne) all around the USA as Gus’s Chemistry studies at UC Berkeley and career with Shell Oil directed.
If only Gus had enjoyed a more Liberian focus, rather than just paquebot markings, this would have been a good story, but it is still nice to settle it. Wrong and yet right.
It seems right to log that update here in the Forum. Or is there a better way to handle corrections and follow-up?