Ayn Rand

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Ayn Rand was born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum in Saint Petersburg on February 2, 1905. After the October Revolution her father’s pharmacy was nationalized, and she graduated from Leningrad State University in October 1924. She arrived in New York on February 19, 1926, and moved on to Hollywood, where she worked for Cecil B. DeMille and married the actor Frank O’Connor on April 15, 1929. She became an American citizen on March 3, 1931.

Her first novel, We the Living, was published in 1936, and her first major success was The Fountainhead in 1943. Atlas Shrugged followed in 1957 and became her best-selling book, and after it she turned to nonfiction. She called her philosophy Objectivism, which holds up reason, rational self-interest and laissez-faire capitalism. Her books have sold over 37 million copies.

Note

The first stamp on the third row is of Ayn Rand. It was illustrated by the artist Nick Gaetano. Rand was a stamp collector who started as a child like I did, left it for decades and resumed later in life to become an avid one – also like me. I think she would be pleased to know there’s a stamp commemorating her life. I know I would be thrilled.

Contains 10 spots: own 6 – 6 unused, 0 used.

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Stamp Details

The table below lists information about the stamps shown on this page of Lighthouse’s stamp album. For more details about a particular stamp, click on its description. That will take you to the related web page of Colnect.

spot	own	catalog	subject	description	comment
1.1	✓	3272	Year of the Rabbit	33¢ (01 1999) comm., multicolor
1.2	✓	3287	Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne	33¢ (03 1999) comm., multicolor
2.1	✓	3308	Ayn Rand	33¢ (04 1999) comm., multicolor
2.2	✓	3273	Malcolm X	33¢ (01 1999) comm., multicolor
2.3	✓	3329	James Cagney	33¢ (07 1999) comm., multicolor
2.4	✓	3315	Prostate Cancer Awareness	33¢ (05 1999) comm., multicolor
3.1		3309	Cinco de Mayo	33¢ (04 1999) comm., multicolor
3.2		3368	Kwanzaa Type of 1997	33¢ (10 1999) comm., multicolor
3.3		3369	Baby New Year	33¢ (12 1999) comm., multicolor
4.1		3352	Hanukkah	33¢ (10 1999) comm., multicolor

Footnotes

• Spot refers to the postion of the stamp on the album page (e.g., 3.2 indicates row 3, position 2).

• Amt. is an abbreviation for the face amount of the stamp.

• Own indicates the stamp status: ✓ for unused; ✗ for used or canceled; ⭑ signifies I ordered one; ; ✨ indicates it was bought recently; ✠ means an auction bid is pending; and ◎ is used, and it costs too much for unused.

• To search by catalog number, go to the search box and enter it in the catalog number box. However, it’s a bit broken; I need to fix it.