Between 1841 and 1879, British authorities issued billions of Penny Red stamps ... Royal Philatelic Collection (nice one, King George V). The stamp was discovered by a Manchester dealer in ...

It seems stamp ... to King George VI and finally to the Queen. Stamps first came into circulation on May 6, 1840 during the early reign of Queen Victoria when it cost only one penny to send ...

The rarest and most valuable single GB stamp is a Plate 77 Penny Red, priced at £650,000 ... stamp - the 1935 2 1⁄2d Prussian Blue. King George V had forbidden the stamp from being printed ...

One of the rarest and most sought after stamps ever produced is up for sale and expected to fetch over half a million pounds. The plate 77 Penny Red has been dubbed the ‘Holy Grail of philately ...

A Plate 77 Penny Red - the “rarest and most valuable” stamp in the UK - is set to break records. It is one of nine in existence and has been described as "legendary" because it shouldn't exist.