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Stamps are historic documents. And history is a story of conflict.  And it looks like we’re still writing new chapters in that vein, sadly.  But, l...

As I write this, questions of ethics and ownership are the order of the day in the auction and collecting world.  The reasons?  Religion. National ...

Coins have purpose and functionality. And their look is very much part of that.  Like a flag, a war banner, a crown or a palace they’ve always bee...

A June camera auction that includes one of the rarest Leicas of the 20th century also raises the lid on the cutting edge of surveillance tech durin...

World War II is one of history’s greatest tragedies.  The death toll is enormous in a sprawling conflict - or series of linked conflicts - that it ...

There’s never a bad time to get into Star Wars collecting.  Though, fair warning, if you do it around now - May the 4th, Star Wars Day - then you s...

Memorabilia is older than the word that describes it.  And more easily instinctively understood than defined.  But, here we are dealing with memora...

Document collectors love significant words.  But changing the world comes at a price. Usually measured in millions.  The written word is the founda...

In 1809 Napoleon locked up the Pope, who was not behaving as the Emperor would like. In a letter sold this week, the French ruler shamelessly denie...

The movies reach back into the 19th century. But as a mass-market, dream-catching, star-making, world-shaping medium they were born in the 1920s.  ...

Pope Francis has passed to a new throne.  The Pope died on Monday, April 22 after a stroke that followed double pneumonia earlier this year. He was...