After a year, the kids had only collected 25,000 stamps. But their efforts took off when The Boston Globe and other media began covering the project. Stamps arrived from stamp clubs, synagogues ...

In the 1920s and ’30s, clerks at The Times collected stamps from overseas mail. The postage tells of a fluid world history. By David W. Dunlap In the In Times Past column, David W. Dunlap ...

The Liverpool-born pop star's childhood collection of stamps is certainly likely to arouse plenty of intrigue among his followers, though. Lennon's stamp collection is known as his 'lost album'.