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 ...

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 ...

Bond guru Bill Gross is exiting one of his long-standing investments and is giving all the proceeds to charity. That investment is rare U.S. stamps, which Gross has been collecting since 1993. "It's ...

Stamp collecting may seem like an old-fashioned hobby in a digital age where fewer and fewer things are sent through the mail, but fans say it is not only still popular but in some ways is a pastime ...

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 ...

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 ...