In a decidedly digital age, the modest postage stamp seems to be slowly vanishing from daily life—no longer ubiquitous in wallets or pocketbooks, useful but maybe not essential. They’re so overlooked ...

The Penny Black. The World’s first postage stamp (image: wikimedia commons) “Philately” (get your mind out of the gutter) is the proper term for the studying of stamps and stamp collecting. It was ...