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: Captain ...

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 ...

Beatles fans and philatelists alike will be able to view John Lennon‘s childhood stamp collection during the World Stamp Show in New York City, May 28th through June 4th. According to the Smithsonian ...

Philately, collecting stamp as a hobby, is one of the few hobbies which can save children from online addiction, spending too much time on the internet, but also beneficial for elders as well. This ...

If I asked you right now, “what would you pay for an unused block of the 1857 5-cent Jefferson Perforated Stamps?”, what would you offer? (No fair Googling it.) Would it be $500? $50,000? If I told ...

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen has an expensive stamp collection. According to Yellen's latest financial disclosure, her stamp collection is worth $15,001-$50,000. Yellen, however, did not appear ...

Queen Elizabeth II has many hobbies. Although she’s well known for her fondness of Corgis and breeding racehorses, the 94-year-old monarch has another way she likes to spend her free time and that is ...

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 ...

The United States Postal Service's newest stamp collection is finally here, transforming the iconic children's book Goodnight Moon into tiny illustrated works of art months after the postage ...