To the schoolboy stamp collector who plucked it from a pile of family papers more than a century ago, it was simply a new addition to his collection. But now a 1-cent postage stamp is set to become ...

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum opens its new William H. Gross Stamp Gallery to the public Sunday, Sept. 22. Named after its primary benefactor, it is the world’s largest stamp gallery and ...

THE world’s first postage stamp, known as the Penny Black, is set to go under the hammer this year. It was once worth just one cent, but it could fetch up to $8.25million (£6million) at an auction.

24c Curtiss Jenny inverted block of four, 1918 This upside-down blue plane within a red frame is the most famous U.S. stamp and one of the world’s most famous printing errors. Only one misprinted ...

An armed escort has just transported the world's oldest stamps – the Penny Black – from London to New York. The Victorian stamp revolutionised the postal service in Britain and subsequently around the ...

The Smithsonian’s National Postal Museum will display the world’s rarest postage stamp. Beginning in April 2015, the 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta will be prominently displayed in the museum’s ...

Despite great expectations, the British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta stamp got licked in a much anticipated auction this morning. The diminutive wisp of paper was expected to set a new world ...