For over 180 years, we’ve been collecting stamps, and philatelists have put a high price on the rarest of the rare stamps, from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. These are the most ...

Most stamp collectors buy, sell and trade postage stamps for fun and have seen the value of their stamp collections drop in recent years. At the same time, the value of individual rare stamps has ...

“This is, without a question, the most significant and most valuable collection of United States stamps formed this past half century,” said Charles Shreve, Gross’ longtime philatelic ...

Qatar Philatelic and Numismatic Center held its annual auction on Friday, showcasing a diverse array of rare collectibles at ...

The stamp, seen here with Siegel Auctions President Scott Trepel, once famously featured in an episode of the Simpsons A rare US postage stamp has sold for $2m (£1.63m) in a New York auction ...

Beauties, scores of 'em rare beauties, lined up in Bombay last week. Er, before we go any further: it is not another Miss World contest we are talking about here, but a stamp exhibition-cum ...

An $8.3m (£6.2m) stamp is returning to the UK for the first time in 143 years, after being sold at auction to a British rare stamp dealer. The British Guiana 1c Magenta was bought by rare stamp ...

Why is it precisely the flawed specimens that get stamp collectors so excited? And what has an uncle from Saxony got to do with all this? Our Havana-based colleague and author Michael Thoss has been ...

Stamps are more than postage- - they are small tiny pieces of history that can tell incredible stories and hold incredible value. Some have become legendary, obtaining millions in auctions and ...