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 ...

The stamp collection belonging to the late German billionaire businessman Erivan Haub, one of the most celebrated collections of American philately, will be offered in a series of sales, with the ...

This week`s column answers questions sent in by readers. Q–I have a collection of unused German stamps with values up to two million marks. Do they have any value? A–During the early 1920s, inflation ...

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 ...

No true philatelist would pass up an 1860s stamped Pony Express envelope, now valued at as much as $50,000. No wonder Rita Braver can find dedicated stamp collectors in all sorts of places: Captain ...