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 ...

In 1993, a Mauritius “Post Office” stamp sold for approximately $1.5 million ... The Red Mercury is particularly rare because ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...