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Voters in the United States of America went to the polls last week. They picked a President - for the 47th time. And many senatorial seats, congres...

De La Rue are still with us today, and is one of the world's leading security and banknote printers. Their history goes back a long way. But not qu...

Can you use your passion for stamps, autographs, movie memorabilia and other collectibles as an alternative investment? Of course. Some items withi...

The postage stamp is often recorded in storybook history as a great individual achievement of Sir Rowland Hill. Indeed, no-one can doubt Hill’s imp...

I don’t know a single serious collector who doesn’t put serious time and effort into finding new items for their collection. That’s such fun. The t...

Why do you buy autographs? For most buyers it’s probably a matter of hero worship. But it doesn’t hurt when they go up in price. And, investing and...

From 1847 to 1854 somewhere in Somerset House stood men patiently stamping repeating images onto sheets of paper. This was the short-lived experime...

Coin collectors need to have the instincts of a hunter. While a lot of the rarest coins are very known quantities, not all are. Coins are produced ...

The Chagos Islands are now back in the hands of..., well Mauritius, or they will be in 99 years time or so.  The islands are remote and extremely s...

Steve Jobs died 13 years ago this week. A private tragedy, but one that was mourned far outside his family. Jobs is one of those rare business figu...

With a major London exhibition on her life coming up Marilyn Monroe is in the news again. But she’s never out of it. And hasn’t been since she firs...