These are the most valuable stamps from around the world. Value: $234,000 The British Board of Education didn't usually issue stamps using its popular moniker, and this sample from 1902 is an ...

once famously featured in an episode of the Simpsons A rare US postage stamp has sold for $2m (£1.63m) in a New York auction, setting the record for the most expensive single US stamp sold.

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 ...

The dealer said that, gram for gram, the stamp is thought to be the most valuable man-made item in the world. It is the only survivor of a small batch printed on the former British colony British ...