Postage Stamps

Fancy joining the pros? Here's a starter guide on how to grade your stamps

The Singapore businessman's collection is displayed at the British Library and he funds fellow philatelists

In November 2023, a tiny red rectangle of paper sold in a New York auction room for $2 million. In doing so, the Inverted Jenny became the world's ...

You know something most people don't. It's true. When most people look at stamps they see a means to an end. Something to stick on a letter and fo...

Here for you is something extremely familiar that you may never see in this form again. If you're my age you've looked at this particular portrait...

Celebrate Independence Day with 2 wonderful portraits of George Washington, the founding President of the United States. And they're portraits wit...

Will the African stamp market replicate the Chinese stamp boom?  We could be at the start of something big.  African economies are becoming increa...

I want you to imagine a door. You walk past it every day. But it's marked “Strictly Forbidden”. And it's always locked. Until one day it isn't. So...

It makes no sense.  Some of the world’s most famous and valuable stamps… …They’re not unique. They’re not even that rare.  The Penny Black: Ther...

Stamps aren't evil of course.  Not on their own.  But postal systems are a vital part of a state's machinery.  Like telephone lines, roads and rai...

Rare British Commonwealth Stamp Errors Collection  A major catalyst has led to a spike of interest in one specific area of the stamp market. Price...

Arrested for stamp collecting?  And all for an overprint.  It was illegal for civilians to own the British government's "IR Official" stamps, over...