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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
John Leszak got hooked when he was a little kid, like most stamp collectors. In his case, you might say there was a bit of divine intervention. “The Sisters of Mercy got me started in 1963,” Leszak ...
"Showing samples taken from the actual envelopes of over 40 different kinds and colors of papers used in the printing of U.S. Envelope stamps. Accompanied by notes on the various colors and papers as ...
Walter Baldwin, a Vietnam War veteran and president of the Bay County Stamp Club, has been collecting stamps since the 1950s. Baldwin inherited his interest in stamps from his grandfather, who worked ...
When David Cordon’s father tore stamps off letters to give to his nine-year-old son, he could not possibly have dreamt of where it would lead. Because 55 years later, Mr Cordon reached the pinnacle of ...