Postage Stamps
The Top Five... Oldest stamp issues in the world
An uncountable number of stamps have been issued around the world - but which were the first?
Charles Dickens joins the great and the good of US politics for autograph sale
Appearing in a special section of a stamp auction, the novelist stands alongside President John Adams
'Unique' never-hinged 1847 stamp could deliver $20,000 in Kelleher auction
Three collections of British, Commonwealth and United States stamps are going under the hammer
$40,000 cover to India leads the Vogel collection at Siegel's next stamps auction
An impressive range of materials from American and Samoan philately is going under the hammer
Stampless post to the Falklands and an Indian invert error lead London stamp sale
Spink's upcoming auction continues a series of rare stamp events based on the Commonwealth
Earliest design for the World Record priced Treskilling stamp could bring £20,000
Worthy of a museum, the 'mother die' of the world's most valuable commodity by weight is up for sale
Illustrated contemporary book of Captain Cook's voyage sails past expectations
The text on the exploration of Australia and New Zealand led a British books and stamps sale
Vast collection of valuable rare stamps, essays and errors to sell in New York
The enormous Nathan Liberman collection is soon to go under the hammer at Spink Shreves
Only block to feature the rare US 'Type 1b stamp' sells for $50,000
Formerly part of a number of top collections, this 1851 stamp sold from the Wagshal Collection
The earliest St Louis Bear looms large in the first Wagshal rare stamp auction
Jerome Wagshal's great collection scores an early hit with two $65,000 sales in New York
World's second-oldest stamp could bring $41,850 at auction
Selling in the US with the Penny Black is its rarer and more valuable sibling: the Two Penny Blue
Rare tiger stamp leaps to £34,000 in Singapore collectors' sale
Torn in half, but rejoined into an attractive whole, the 5 cent blue is one of the great rarities of Pahang
