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 ...

The process of stamp collecting is nearly as old as the stamp itself. There have been documented cases of meetings of stamp collectors taking place as early as 1841 and advertisements placed by ...

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, ...

NEW YORK - On the centennial anniversary of the annual American Stamp Dealers' Association, hundreds of philatelists - people who study and collect stamps--flocked to a hotel hall in midtown Manhattan ...

Can you remember the days when we used to receive letters from the postman? Many collected stamps from the envelopes and stuck them on albums made especially for this purpose. In this age of online ...

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 ...

Living along a remote stretch of Northern California's redwood coast, Oliver Seeler painstakingly tracks down stamps from around the world. But not just any stamps. He collects only those with images ...