Collecting

Postage stamps, old coins and football cards are some of the more usual items gathered by those interested in collecting items as a hobby.

From autumn next year, the popular Barbie doll will be sold with hijab. This was reported by the American toy maker Mattel, the world news agencies said.

Stamp collectors, also known as philatelists, are still attending stamp exchange events every week with stamps they have been collecting since childhood. 

Collector İrfan Yalın, who holds Turkey's only tintype photography collection, says collections are the memory of society and light the path for future generations. 

Turkish collectors of one of the best known novels in the world, Antoine de Saint Exupery's "Le Petit Prince" (The Little Prince), have come together in Ankara at an exhibition. 

Students at Istanbul University?s Art History Department have elicited administrative disapproval after a 16th century Italian work they selected for an event poster was deemed ?bawdy? by authorities.

Some ancient coins were returned to the government of Greece on Monday after the New York prosecution of a prominent collector.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. and Greek officials held a ceremony marking the repatriation of coins dating to 500 B.C.

BELGRADE - An exhibition titled "'Geological Treasure of the Serbian Land" will open at the Gallery of Science & Technology of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SANU) on April 10, presenting a collection of minerals, rocks and fossils belonging to the Belgrade-based Faculty of Mining and Geology.