GORGING ON HBO in Washington, D.C., while waiting for the city to unlock itself, my eye wandered from TV to the media cabinet shelf where my long-forgotten stamp albums sat. An inveterate traveler ...

SCOTT TREPEL: Well, the stamp that we sold for $2 million is the Inverted Jenny, and it is the icon of stamp collecting. CHANG: That is Scott Trepel, president of Siegel Auction Galleries in New York.

The chance to draw Betty White for a U.S. postage stamp was an easy “yes” for Boston-based illustrator Dale Stephanos. "I said 'yes' before they finished the sentence," he recalls in an ...