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 valuable stamps from around the world. Value: $234,000 ...

“This is, without a question, the most significant and most valuable collection of United States stamps formed this past half century,” said Charles Shreve, Gross’ longtime philatelic ...

The stamp, seen here with Siegel Auctions President Scott Trepel, 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 ...

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 British Guiana 1c Magenta was bought by rare stamp dealer Stanley Gibbons last month. The dealer said that, gram for gram, the stamp is thought to be the most valuable man-made item in the world.

Why is it precisely the flawed specimens that get stamp collectors so excited? And what has an uncle from Saxony got to do with all this? Our Havana-based colleague and author Michael Thoss has been ...