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 ...

A set of stamps known as The British Philatelic Trophy Collection is set to sell for millions and includes classics such as ...

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 ...

I was absolutely amazed at the prices in a catalogue of rare stamps which I was looking over the other day. View Full Article in Timesmachine » Advertisement ...

While many stamps have depreciated in value in recent decades, the rarest stamps can be worth millions of dollars and act as a reliable place to store money for the very wealthy. For everyone else ...

“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 ...

Stanley Gibbons, the 160-year-old rare stamp and collectables business, has put itself up for sale. The company has identified the Middle East and Asia as new markets for potential growth ...

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 ...

Quality stamp collections, featuring rare examples from around the world, attracted great interest and sold for up to £4,200 at Shropshire’s leading fine art auction house. Some of the stamps ...

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 ...