A Christmas stamp over 50 years old could be sold for over £500 thanks to an unusual printing mishap. The three pence stamp ...

Many collectors today wonder if postage stamps are good investments. While some rare and historical stamps have increased in value over the years, the market can be very unpredictable. Factors like ...

AN extremely rare Christmas stamp – featuring a printing error – was due to go under the hammer at a local online auction today. The ‘Faceless Angel’ 3p Christmas stamp, one of just 24 known to be in ...

Undoubtedly, the rarest and most expensive German stamp ever sold at auction is the Baden 9 Kreuzer error stamp. The nitty-gritty of stamp collecting can be as ...

Wednesday’s auction eclipsed earlier single-stamp auction records for classic and rare U.S. postage stamps. One of two known examples of an 1867 stamp depicting Abraham Lincoln embossed with a “Z ...

The recent sale of a 1-cent Ben Franklin stamp for $4.4 million, the most expensive U.S. stamp ever sold, again raises for consideration the question, “Are postage stamps good investments?” Certainly ...

An ultra-rare U.S. postage stamp is going under the hammer this summer — and it may fetch as much as $5 million. Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York recently announced that it will be ...

The 31-year-old son of billionaire “Bond King” Bill Gross has sold five rare postage stamps against his father’s wishes — and bagged nearly $1.9 million in the process. The final gavel price for the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's rarest postal stamp, the 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, will go on display at the National Postal Museum in Washington starting in April, the Smithsonian ...

In a sign that high-end collectibles may withstand the economic downturn, a near-record price for a rare postage stamp was set last week at an auction in New York City. A pink 3-cent stamp issued in ...

A first-class U.S. postage stamp will set you back 66 cents these days, which, you know, might seem expensive to anyone who remembers cheaper postage. AILSA CHANG, HOST: But a stamp that's more than a ...

If you're running low on stamps, you might want to buy a book sooner rather than later. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is expected to raise the price of its postage stamps again, which would be the ...