I met my friend Paul at summer camp. Paul was a canoe-tripper—most famous for the summer he abandoned his campers for three days alone and unsupervised on an island in LaVérendrye Wildlife Reserve. He ...
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 ...
Standing outside his Miracle Mile office, veteran philatelist George W. Holschauer of the Colonial Stamp Company takes a puff of his ever-present pipe and talks about recent press coverage of the ...
What keeps somebody glued to a hobby for 70 years? For Steve Reinhard, 78, who has been happily stuck on stamp collecting for seven decades, the pastime delivers first-class delight. Every tiny sticky ...
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 ...
Hunkering at home in 2020 gave me time to sort through the family archive, which is the name I gave to the collections and accumulations of things left by departed family members — mostly letters, ...
Nearly 46 years ago, Bob and Barbara Chisholm met because of stamps. A Santa Ana dealer introduced them. The two soon realized they had a common love — stamps — which probably explains why their first ...
RONKONKOMA, N.Y. (CBSNewYork)-- A meticulously labeled stamp collection left behind on a train includes some mementos that are centuries old, some from the Confederacy and others from around the globe ...
Royal Mail has unveiled a new set of stamps to celebrate the release of the 25th James Bond film, No Time to Die. Rare £5 notes: which ones are the most valuable? Could your rare 50p coin be worth ...
A RARE interest in stamp collecting attracted teenager Low Zhao Hong from Melaka to attend a stamp fair by the Philatelic Society of Malaysia (PSM) all the way in Petaling Jaya, Selangor. “It all ...