Stamps as an investment in collectibles has long been an attractive way to diversify a portfolio by very wealthy individuals. There is no one better example than Bill Gross to illustrate someone who ...

NEW YORK – A 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America has become the world's most valuable stamp — again. The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta sold Tuesday at ...

An ultra-rare U.S. postage stamp is going under the hammer this summer — and it may fetch as much as $5 million. Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York recently announced that it will be ...

NEW YORK - A 1-cent postage stamp from a 19th century British colony in South America is poised to become the world's most valuable stamp -- again. The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta could bring ...

The postage stamp that started it all is going under the gavel. The coveted 18th-century rarity, known as the Penny Black, was the world’s first postage stamp and represents the very dawn of social ...

Major stamp auctions are stellar events and none more so than the June 14-15 sale in New York of the key items from the Bill Gross collection, the most complete of United States postage stamp ...

Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US As the auctioneer's hammer fell in New York on Wednesday night, yet another philatelic record tumbled. A block of four stamps, depicting a ...

Bond investor Bill Gross just broke an auction record in the stamp world, raking in $10 million in a single day. The top lot, which fetched $737,500, was the unique block of the 24-cent 1869 Pictorial ...

In June, New York’s Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries will offer what it is billing as the most valuable U.S. postage stamp, an extraordinarily rare 1868 one-cent “Z-grill” stamp featuring Benjamin ...

Many of us who collected stamps as kids were drawn by their beauty and variety. But for real collectors, it's the rare stamp — the mistake — that gets the excitement and the money. At Robert Siegel ...

WEST CALDWELL, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 11, 2004--Greg Manning Auctions, Inc. (Nasdaq: GMAI) announced today that the company had acquired the business assets of Nutmeg Stamp Sales of Danbury, ...

LONDON, Oct 26 (Reuters) - An example of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is being offered at auction, Sotheby's said on Tuesday, with a price estimate of up to $8.25 million. Dating ...