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 ...
Editor's note: This is the third story in an ongoing series about interesting hobbies in and around the Norwalk area. If you have an interesting hobby you would like profiled, contact Staff Writer ...
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 ...
Even though he's been collecting stamps for 40 years, Jack Leiby says he doesn't often use them. Mr. Leiby, of Rock Island, was one of a couple dozen philatelists who came toSt. Mary's Catholic Church ...
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 ...
A recent Monday, 11:34 p.m.: After finishing his $2 lunch at the Russian American Community Services center, Julius Mansbach sifted through an envelope of stamps he had just received from his contacts ...
King Charles, 74, may be the son and heir of the late Queen Elizabeth, but that doesn’t mean they have everything in common — for example, a love of one of his mother’s favorite pastimes, stamp ...
BRENTWOOD — Once referred to as the “the hobby of kings and the king of hobbies,” stamp collecting might not be as popular as it once was, but it isn’t a lost art either. Just ask the U.S. Postal ...
Building a collection has been a popular hobby for generations for many reasons but the main one? Well, who doesn’t love a treasure hunt? Serious collectors have a lifelong treasure hunt ahead of them ...
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 ...
Queen Elizabeth is apparently a keen stamp collector, and her hobby has managed to make her an incredible £100million so far. The monarch is reportedly the proud owner of one of the rarest stamps in ...