The first stamp was created in Great Britain on May 1, 1840. It wouldn't take long for people to start collecting them. Just one year later, a woman placed an ad in the London Times seeking ...

In June, the Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York will host an auction featuring the most valuable U.S. postage ...

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 ...