The American Topical Association is a resource for people who collect stamps. The American Topical Association is a terrific resource that helps people learn about an easy an fun way to become ...

Topical collecting has been one of the bright spots in philately in the last ten years. Women, children and the elderly have been drawn to the area, attracted by the great strides made in the quality ...

What do Harry Potter, Dante's Inferno and Alexander Hamilton have in common? They are all the subjects of stamps. So are lions, TV's Homer Simpson, the Chinese zodiac, butterflies and Ben Franklin.

Topical collecting is mainly a new issue collecting market and thus does little to reduce the buildup in classic stamp inventories, a looming industry problem. It is also abusive when it sets high ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was rather young, stamp collecting was a bit of a hobby. I stopped doing it about the time self-adhesive stamps came into the fray. Recently I've looked at getting back into this as I saw some ...

Many youth develop an early interest in sports cards. While they chase after the hot rookie cards and dream of Honus Wagner's rare 1909 T206 baseball card, other youth like Norm Beckman ventured into ...