The Milwaukee Philatelic Society was organized in 1899, making it one of the oldest stamp collecting clubs in the country. Did you know Milwaukee is home to one of the oldest stamp clubs in the ...

They're more than necessary stickers for mailing a letter or a package. For many enthusiasts, stamps are for collecting, swapping, selling and trading. And this month, across the country, stamp ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

PITTSFIELD — Beth Calkins arrived at Hancock Shaker Village at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, 90 minutes before opening, so she could be at the front of the line. Calkins was just one of many standing in line, ...

A freelance reporter in London tries to sell his boyhood stamp collection and takes a journey through memory and vanished nations. Clearing out a closet, roof space or garage can be a chore. Old ...

SINGAPORE — Once banned by Mao Zedong as a bourgeois activity, stamp collecting has become increasingly popular in China in recent years. While early collectors were from Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the ...

One of the attractions of stamps is the nuggets of history they leave behind of events and people, often long forgotten, but for the stamps they left behind. Great Britain invented stamps in 1840 and ...

This column answers questions sent in by Tribune readers. Q: What is the best way to store stamps? Can I use plastic bags or paper envelopes? Do you stack stamps together on top of one another? A: ...