From stamps to coins to baseball cards, people collect rare or unique items, at least partly in the hope they will appreciate in value and perhaps one day fetch a handsome sum. One stunning example is ...

When bond investor Bill Gross's mother wanted to save money for his education, she looked at stamp collecting as a way to invest. But when he tried to sell the stamps before enrolling at Duke ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The goal to which every serious collector aspires is to build a “complete” collection – that is, ...

A set of philatelic items including a gold portrait of late Chinese leader Mao Zedong, 13 silver stamps and 38 hand-made, silk commemorative envelopes that feature the former leader's selected ...

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 ...

When I was rather young, stamp collecting was a bit of a hobby. I stopped doing it about the time self-adhesive stamps came into the fray. Recently I've looked at getting back into this as I saw some ...