The New Yorker

My Stamp Collection

I met my friend Paul at summer camp. Paul was a canoe-tripper—most famous for the summer he abandoned his campers for three days alone and unsupervised on an island in LaVérendrye Wildlife Reserve. He ...
NPR

Selling his old stamp collection, a reporter looks back through history and memory

A freelance reporter in London tries to sell his boyhood stamp collection and takes a journey through memory and vanished nations. Clearing out a closet, roof space or garage can be a chore. Old ...
The Guardian

The King, a kangaroo and a surfing Santa: I unearthed my childhood stamp collection – and found memories of my grandmother too

Rediscovering my stamp collection has brought me joy, nostalgia – and a handy distraction from study I had two weeks to prepare for my medical school exams. Two weeks of blissful solitude at home, ...
The New Yorker

Highlights From the Diffee Collection

I’m an avid collector—everything from coins and stamps to rare milk. Collecting just comes easy to me. My stamp collection, for instance—I started it a few years back, when the U.S. Postal Service ...
Columbus Dispatch

Coronavirus Chronicles: Cataloging stamp collection a lesson in family history

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, ...