For over 180 years, we’ve been collecting stamps, and philatelists have put a high price on the rarest of the rare stamps, from hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars. These are the most ...

which most recently sold for $8.31 million, and the Treskilling Yellow, a rare misprint from Sweden. These stamps have reached iconic status in the collecting community. These examples highlight ...

Beauties, scores of 'em rare beauties, lined up in Bombay last week. Er, before we go any further: it is not another Miss World contest we are talking about here, but a stamp exhibition-cum ...

The stamp collection also features a rare sword and scabbard from the Ming dynasty, c.1420; an ornately decorated flintlock gun by Simpson of York, c.1738; a Japanese helmet from the Edo period ...

Our Havana-based colleague and author Michael Thoss has been rummaging through the world’s most valuable stamp collections and reports on errors, freaks, and oddities. It all started when I was a ...

Their collections boast of a special cover focusing on the Maha Kumbh held at Prayagraj in 1977 and a bazaar postcard of the ...

Singaporean-Chinese Johnny Lowis believes he has collected about 95% of the snake-themed stamps that are available in the ...