Dirty, heavily postmarked and just an inch wide, this dark red stamp may appear hardly worth a second glance to the casual observer. But it is the “holy grail” of collecting and will soon ...

Between 1841 and 1879, British authorities issued billions of Penny Red stamps, serving a communication revolution driven by rising literacy rates that saw letter-writing boom. Philatelists are ...

A rare stamp has been sold for almost half a million pounds. The Plate 77 Penny Red, one of only five in the world, including one at the British Museum, was bought by a private collector for £ ...

A limited 150,000 unit run of five different stamps – black, red, blue, yellow, black – allows the owner to use a physical stamp, but then save its image in their wallet. According to a Reddit ...