The peculiar stamp hardly struck the boy as very valuable, so the budding philatelist ... and bought a packet of foreign stamps that he apparently found more aesthetically appealing.

Why have prices for very rare stamps risen so high? The broad reason is that number of extremely wealthy people in the world has soared in recent years. The Hurun Global Rich List, published in ...

None seem to be very valuable or of great collector interest ... Fifty or 100 of such average foreign stamps can be purchased today from retail sources for less than $10. On its best day, the ...

They wanted the foreign stamps on the envelopes ... He's among an estimated 60 million rare stamp collectors globally - two-thirds of whom are from Asia. The 'British Guiana one-cent magenta ...

"We call them Blue Chip Stamps," said Scott Trepel, president of the Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, the auction house behind the sale. "They're not hard to understand. They're very rare.

The rare coin and ... owners), the stamp is expected to go for between $10 million and $15 million. Finally, there’s a block of “Inverted Jenny” stamps, the very first US airmail stamp.

Three very rare stamps of the world - ‘Inverted Head’, ‘Copper Ticket’ and ‘Gandhi Service Over Print’ - would be on display at the four-day ‘Bihar Stamp Expo-2012’ commencing from ...

They wanted the foreign stamps on the envelopes ... He's among an estimated 60 million rare stamp collectors globally - two-thirds of whom are from Asia. Aside from stamps, other items that ...