Siegel Auction Galleries, marking the first time the rare stamp has been on auction ... which would make it the single most expensive US stamp ever sold. (It’s surpassed internationally by ...

Few specimens exist today, and none have been up for auction since the last one sold for upward of $400,000. The 1851 12d Black Empress is far from the rarest Canadian stamp, but it still commands ...

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 climbed and the search for ...

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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, setting the record for the most expensive single US stamp sold.

The rare stamp will be sold alongside 100 other lots on June 14, followed by the auction of Gross’s U.S. collection the following day. “For collectors who have patiently waited for this to ...

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 ...

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

“Even back in secondary school, I was aware that stamps have value and can be bought and sold. I started off collecting stamps from all over the world, and Malaysian first day covers, to ...

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 ...

Britain's most expensive stamp collection is being sold - and is expected to fetch up to £12M. The unique set includes the largest surviving block of unused Penny Blacks and has been dubbed the finest ...