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 first German stamp "Schwarzer Einser" on a first day cover dated November 1, 1849 from Bavaria can be seen through a magnifying glass. The letter was sold for €440,000 ($492,660) at the Heinrich ...

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 ...

Born in February 1901 in Ribnitz, eastern Germany, Max Lichenheim was 7 years old when his father, a collector, gave him a cigar box filled with stamps. Two years later, the youngster had more than ...

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 ...