The number of Indian stamps in the collection were almost thrice the number of stamps of other countries, although the fewer foreign stamps created a niche for themselves by coming in triangular, ...

Dedicated stamp collectors usually have implausible dreams. For example, to find, among a grandparent’s love letters, an envelope with an airplane printed upside down. Or, in a flea market in Athens a ...

Can you remember the days when we used to receive letters from the postman? Many collected stamps from the envelopes and stuck them on albums made especially for this purpose. In this age of online ...

Sir — The postage stamp was once the quiet hero of every envelope but has now been relegated to philatelists’ albums. Tiny and dignified, stamps bore declarations of love, overdue apologies, and ...