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 ...

The first German stamp "Schwarzer Einser" on a first day cover dated November 1, 1849 from Bavaria can be seen through a magnifying glass. The letter was sold for €440,000 ($492,660) at the Heinrich ...

A recent visit to Germany included a visit to the Michel catalog company to discuss the German and European stamp markets. My discussion with Hans Hohenester, the owner of Schwanberger Verlag GmbH ...

The German Post is among the several government postal agencies that annually promotes stamp collecting. Unlike the U.S. Postal Service, which occasionally sponsors a show but recently severed its ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Half a rare German postage stamp which dates back to 1872 has fetched some 261,000 euros ($347,500) at auction in the southern German town of Bietigheim-Bissingen, a spokeswoman for ...

German stamps will soon be kitted out with individual matrix codes to help stop letters getting lost in the mail, national postal company Deutsche Post said Tuesday. Customers will be able to use the ...

The stamps would have had to be pulped had Germany lost to Argentina Germany is to issue a stamp celebrating its team's victory in the football World Cup. Five million were printed before the final ...

The stamps were ordered by Germany's Finance Ministry, which holds 21 per cent of Deutsche Post's shares through the state-owned KfW bank. 'This year I dared to hope very early on that our team would ...

A German pensioner hit the jackpot at his local fleamarket when a $25 book of old stamps contained a single rare specimen which he believes is worth an incredible $3 million. Reinhold Hoffmann, 70, ...