Condition is the most important factor in determining the price and fair value of a stamp. Collectors are obsessed with quality. When buying a stamp for investment, few compromises are acceptable ...

Thinking about a different way to invest your money? If you’ve ever had an interest in starting a stamp collection, now is an opportune time to enter the field, say Chicago-area stamp collectors and ...

If you’ve ever come across an old stamp collection and wondered if it might be worth something, you’re not alone. Collecting ...

Brian Kuehl, Lawrence, right, picks out his stamp door prize at the beginning of the Sept. 2 meeting of the Lawrence Stamp Club. In background is Devin Zell, club president. The organization has ...

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, ...

FARGO — If you were to utter the following words to anyone under the age of 40, they might give you a quizzical look: “I walked away with a ton of green stamps from Red Owl today.” Those Millennials ...

Every Friday night, while my dad watched the Gillette Friday Night Fights from Madison Square Garden on our 19-inch, black and white, RCA TV bought with Blue Chip Stamps, my mother would sit at the ...

Although the Commonwealth nations and the UK have not done well valuation wise, certain of them have a sizeable market beyond the UK collectors and therefor are subject to independent factors ...

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 ...

Lambert W. Gerber was just becoming interested in stamps in 1928 when Benjamin Kurtz Miller, an eccentric Wisconsin lawyer who collected only the rarest of rare U.S. postage stamps, bequeathed his ...