Laurence received the award on June 8 at the Napex stamp show and exhibition in McLean, Va.

Also this week, pondering the many ways to collect stamps and exploring a new online learning tool from the American Philatelic Society.

The four stamps show a Pacific tree frog, a northern leopard frog, an American green tree frog and a squirrel tree frog.

The British-born film director and producer became synonymous with the word “thriller” when it came to movies.

Also popular this week were stories about the United States Sesame Street stamp issue and Great Britain's D-Day stamps for the 75th anniversary.

The new stamp features a painting by Scot Storm that depicts a male wood duck in the foreground and a carved wooden duck decoy that resembles a male wood duck in the background.

The unusual colors of the birds’ heads on the 2016 Songbirds in Snow forever stamp showing golden-crowned kinglets drew a great deal of interest.

The Jenny Invert is the most famous error stamp among U.S. issues, with only one sheet of 100 stamps discovered.

The material offered in the June 25 public auction from Daniel F. Kelleher, advertised as the MLG collection, includes many United States first-day covers and pre-first-day covers (those postmarked prior to the announced issue date), plus flight covers, exposition covers and much more.

At least two prominent philatelic organizations were targeted recently by someone trying to steal money from the group through a fraud scheme.

With a competitive display of 2,000 collector pages, Okpex is an American Philatelic Society World Series of Philately event.

Using United States stamps to aid in advertising campaigns has a long history.

The set of four United States forever stamps depicting four different frogs will have its first-day ceremony in an Idaho nature center.

This 22¢ Audubon tagging variety is one of the most difficult to find in full mint panes.

Colopex will host numerous single-frame and multiframe exhibits, which will be judged by APS-accredited judges.

You are invited to use your imagination to put words in the mouth of the young woman at the computer.

A new set of 16 Forever stamps from the United States Postal Service pays tribute to the popular children’s television series Sesame Street.

The July 19 first-day ceremony for the two United States Moon Landing forever stamps will begin at 11 a.m. at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, Space Commerce Way, in Merritt Island, Fla.

The earliest documented use of the stamp is a July 22, 1920, dated cancel on a pair of stamps.

The issue date marks the 75th anniversary of the Missouri’s commissioning on June 11, 1944.