Majolica, the famous tin-glazed earthenware pottery, gets its name from Majorca (Mallorca), the Mediterranean island off the ...

Hunkering at home in 2020 gave me time to sort through the family archive, which is the name I gave to the collections and accumulations of things left by departed family members — mostly letters, ...

This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). Now ubiquitous in many of Japan’s 9,000 stations, the first eki stamp appeared in 1931 at Fukui station near the Sea of Japan coast, ...

Other activities: The Inland Empire Philatelic Society meets the fourth Tuesday of the month at 7 p.m. at Riverview Retirement Center, 1801 E. Upriver Drive. The youth group meets the second Saturday ...

Almost weekly Momo Nomura makes time to visit Shinto shrines. She performs the prescribed rituals — cleansing her hands, ringing a bell, bowing and clapping. But her main purpose is getting a Goshuin, ...

NEW YORK --One of thelongest mysteries in the stamp-collecting world is getting a new chapter. Six decades after four of the U.S. Postal Service's most celebrated misprints were brashly stolen from a ...

Stamp collection has never really been my thing, but I may be converted after seeing this stylish set. In a homage to Sweden's top sporting legends, Nordic postal service PostNord has commissioned ...

For many years I made my living as an investment advisor, both on a personal basis to high net worth individuals, and in print as a columnist and newsletter publisher. It would therefor come as no ...

The 2026 stamp collections honor the natural world, celebrate the United States' 250th anniversary and reflect on America's ...