No true philatelist would pass up an 1860s stamped Pony Express envelope, now valued at as much as $50,000. No wonder Rita Braver can find dedicated stamp collectors in all sorts of places. Originally ...

Stamp collecting isn’t what it used to be. The hobby once rooted in collectors’ homes and schools and in small stamp shops scattered around the country is now grounded on the Internet. These changes ...

Collecting stamps can be as easy as pulling a stamp off an envelope delivered by mail or as complicated as studying historical events to find a particularly rare or coveted one. Whatever the interest, ...

GORGING ON HBO in Washington, D.C., while waiting for the city to unlock itself, my eye wandered from TV to the media cabinet shelf where my long-forgotten stamp albums sat. An inveterate traveler now ...

Q: I want to find a good home for the stamp collection I started as a kid. I took it to a stamp show, but serious collectors didn't find it sophisticated enough for them. The guy at a local stamp ...

My mom started [collecting] in the late 1930s . . . in anticipation of her three kids going to college . . . and bought . . . newly issued commemoratives, [paying] $3 ...

Forget everything you think you know about stamp collecting. Remember the solitary old man with a magnifying glass looking at little pieces of paper with pictures on them? He may have died a long time ...

ATWATER - Competing in the big leagues of international stamp collecting proved to be a positive, award-winning experience for an Atwater man. Alan Moll, who had two exhibitions accepted into the ...

The flood of money going into collectibles -- art, wine, jewelry -- is now pouring into the market for postage stamps. News that William Gross, the billionaire bond trader at Pimco, is selling off ...