A letter bearing the first stamp issued in Germany, sent on the first day of the stamp's validity, was auctioned on Friday for €440,000 ($492,660) in the western German city of Wiesbaden. The ...

It will now cost more to mail a letter. The price of Forever Stamps -which can be used in perpetuity regardless of future changes - went up today (July 14th). Stamps are now 73 cents, 5 cents ...

Sold for around £1.6 million in New York, 2005. Comprises four individual 24 cent stamps, printed in 1918. They feature a Curtiss JN-4 Jenny aircraft in flight, inadvertently printed upside down.