Many collectors today wonder if postage stamps are good investments. While some rare and historical stamps have increased in value over the years, the market can be very unpredictable. Factors like ...

The German Post is among the several government postal agencies that annually promotes stamp collecting. Unlike the U.S. Postal Service, which occasionally sponsors a show but recently severed its ...

Undoubtedly, the rarest and most expensive German stamp ever sold at auction is the Baden 9 Kreuzer error stamp. The nitty-gritty of stamp collecting can be as ...

Since his tragic passing late last year, Motörhead frontman and rock lifer Lemmy Kilmister has been honored in countless forms, from hockey helmets to playable video game characters. The latest ...

Can you remember the days when we used to receive letters from the postman? Many collected stamps from the envelopes and stuck them on albums made especially for this purpose. In this age of online ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Half a rare German postage stamp which dates back to 1872 has fetched some 261,000 euros ($347,500) at auction in the southern German town of Bietigheim-Bissingen, a spokeswoman for ...

THIS OCTOBER, bats are harbingers of Halloween and National Stamp Collecting Month. The flying mammals are sticking to envelopes, flitting through mailboxes, spreading the word: Stamp collecting is ...

The Sasolburg Philatelic Society/Filatelie Vereniging or Oilfilat as it is informally known is holding its annual exhibition at the Sasolburg Public Library from 17 to 21 April. Nowadays, philately, ...

RARE postage stamps bearing Audrey Hepburn's image have disappeared from a safe in the German Finance Ministry and may have fallen into the hands of collectors willing to pay thousands of euro for ...

COVID may have breathed new life into this oft-forgotten pastime. Even if you’re quarantining, you can sate a stamp collecting addiction. After all, today, most buying and trading occur online: buying ...