Bargain hunters will love this story. Stamp collectors? Not so much. For several years, local coin-and-stamp dealers have been selling discounted postage stamps — older stamps that have retained their ...
Those tiny squares of paper we stick on envelopes hold secrets that would surprise even the most curious minds. From the world's first postage stamp that ...
The oldest piece of mail to use a pre-paid Penny Black stamp is set to be auctioned in New York. The British Penny Black was the first-ever adhesive postage stamp. The letter cover has a sale estimate ...
The unique Mulready letter sheet combined with a Penny Black stamp features the first ever methods of pre-payments for post, introduced in May 1840. With an upper estimate of $2.5million (£2million), ...