BROOKFIELD -- One is a Marilyn Monroe fan. One is a history buff captivated by Charles Lindbergh's flight on the Spirit of St. Louis. One is a student of European royalty. Still another simply likes ...

When English writer Theodore Hook sent himself a postcard in 1840, he meant it as a practical joke. Little did he know that one piece of self-designed card would inadvertently, in the year 2001, be ...

Building a collection has been a popular hobby for generations for many reasons but the main one? Well, who doesn’t love a treasure hunt? Serious collectors have a lifelong treasure hunt ahead of them ...

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 ...

John Leszak got hooked when he was a little kid, like most stamp collectors. In his case, you might say there was a bit of divine intervention. “The Sisters of Mercy got me started in 1963,” Leszak ...

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 ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Now ubiquitous in many of Japan’s 9,000 stations, the first eki stamp appeared in 1931 at Fukui station near the Sea of Japan coast, ...

Even avid collectors will tell you: Stamp collecting is not the flashiest of hobbies. It isn't trendy. It doesn't speed past you at the breakneck pace of a video game or offer the manic energy of a ...

COVID may have breathed new life into this oft-forgotten pastime. Even if you’re quarantining, you can sate a stamp collecting addiction. After all, today, most buying and trading occur online: buying ...