Stamp collecting — often called philately — is one of the most rewarding and timeless hobbies you can undertake. It allows you to journey through history, geography, art and culture, all within the ...

Stamps as investments is a controversial subject. Collectors and dealers are united in their opposition to promoting the concept, but for different, and usually, self-serving reasons. What they fail ...

The valuation of any item is subject to a variety of factors some of which appear universal and others which are unique to the product. This is true for investment grade postage stamps but, to make a ...

CHICAGO — When a bout of measles kept 6-year-old Charles Berg home from school, his grandfather did the one thing medicine can’t do for a sick kid: distract him. He shared his personal stamp ...

OCEAN PINES, Md. (AP) — When he was 12 years old, Bert Raymond's life was forever changed by the power of a used stamp that probably had a value of less than a penny. Raymond, now 87, has been ...

"Giving upwards of three hundred stamps not in the previous issue." "Savill and Edwards, printer, Chandos-Street, Covent-Garden"--P. 130. "Index, and money table ...

63,860. That’s how many stamps Jim Shriver, 88, has in his vast collection. “I started an Excel file to keep track,” Shriver said. “About 40,000 of those are individual stamps.” He later added: “I ...