CHICAGO — When a bout of measles kept 6-year-old Charles Berg home from school, his grandfather did the one thing medicine can’t do for a sick kid: distract him. He shared his personal stamp ...

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 ...

Brooklyn Gallery Coins and Stamps Inc. opened on Fourth Avenue in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn over 47 years ago and has been a one-stop shop for stamp and coin collecting and supplies ever since. Like his ...

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, ...

Introduction -- How to use the book -- Getting started -- Categories of collecting -- Using a catalog -- Acquiring an album -- Supplies you will need -- Watermarking -- Perforations -- Locating hard ...

When Austin Marks was 10, his dad gave him a beginner's stamp album and poured out a big pile of stamps on the table. "I sifted through them, stamp by stamp," he recalls, and found the ones that ...

Stamps as investments is a controversial subject. Collectors and dealers are united in their opposition to promoting the concept, but for different, and usually, self-serving reasons. What they fail ...