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THE CHICKEN STAMP CENTENNIALshores of the future United States.) Which meant that the selling of chickens and eggs had been going on for much longer than a century. So the promoters decided their stamp was commemorating the 100th anniversary of the January 1848 Boston Poultry Show.Years later, echoing the continuing disdain of many of its readers, a 2002 issue of Stamp Collector commented that the so-called anniversary was %u201cconsidered to have been invented for the express purpose of making this stamp possible to satisfy a political constituency.%u201d A later issue added that it was, %u201ca decidedly less-thanstampworthy event.%u201dOther critics have decried the stamp%u2019s release in New Haven rather than Boston, where the Poultry Show had taken place. The reason for choosing New Haven was actually twofold. First, the stamp proposal got hung up in the U.S. Senate until it was too late to be released on the January anniversary date in Boston. But, more importantly, neither of the two sponsors had ties to Boston. Ives and his magazine were based in New Haven, Masthead of the newsletter of the poultry industry, edited by Paul Ives.and Sadlak represented the citizens of Connecticut, not Massachusetts.While lacking the fame (or infamy) of the 1948 stamp, there was an earlier proposal for a stamp to honor the poultry industry that has been nearly forgotten. It was suggested by Roy M. Lynnes, Editor of Poultry Supply Dealer, who advocated for a series of four stamps in 1938%u2014a 1%u00a2, 2%u00a2, 3%u00a2, and 5%u00a2. There doesn%u2019t appear to be a record of how seriously the Post Office treated his idea, but it was definitely rejected.The Ives/Sadlak stamp wasn%u2019t the last time somebody bypassed the Post Office and went This series of four stamps designed by the poultry industry in 1939, was neither approved nor released by the Post Office.