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 ...
THIS OCTOBER, bats are harbingers of Halloween and National Stamp Collecting Month. The flying mammals are sticking to envelopes, flitting through mailboxes, spreading the word: Stamp collecting is ...
COVID may have breathed new life into this oft-forgotten pastime. Even if you’re quarantining, you can sate a stamp collecting addiction. After all, today, most buying and trading occur online: buying ...
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 ...
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 ...
The number of Indian stamps in the collection were almost thrice the number of stamps of other countries, although the fewer foreign stamps created a niche for themselves by coming in triangular, ...
As a young boy, I had several thousand stamps in my collection. Back then, receiving a letter in the post meant new stamps! I still remember receiving my first stamp of Ireland, attached to a letter ...