CHICAGO — When a bout of measles kept 6-year-old Charles Berg home from school, his grandfather did the one thing medicine can’t do for a sick kid: distract him. He shared his personal stamp ...

CINCINNATI -- In a narrow, rust-colored building on Main Street resides a century-old testament to survival — and to the fact that small and low-tech still have a place in a big, high-tech world.

When Austin Marks was 10, his dad gave him a beginner's stamp album and poured out a big pile of stamps on the table. "I sifted through them, stamp by stamp," he recalls, and found the ones that ...

BERKLEY – Karl Schaefer was 12 years old and living in New York when his affinity for collecting stamps began. His uncle was an avid collector — which helped kick start the passion — and eventually ...

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 ...

“When I was kid, everybody collected stamps,” says Charles Berg, who was a kid in the 1940s and ’50s. Edward McClelland “Yesterday, nobody came in.” At 80 years old, Charles Berg is an old-fashioned ...