A rare postage stamp printed in British Guiana in 1856 and most recently owned by a du Pont heir convicted of murder is expected to fetch a record price of $10 million to $20 million at a New York ...

Despite great expectations, the British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta stamp got licked in a much anticipated auction this morning. The diminutive wisp of paper was expected to set a new world ...

AFTER more than a dozen years of political turmoil and racial strife, British Guiana will achieve independence on May 26 to become South America’s eleventh nation and its first new country in ...

In British Guiana’s capital of Georgetown, Gimpex, short for Guiana Import-Export Corp., offers them all. The company is the colony’s biggest importer of Communist goods, and Marxist Premier ...

This article looks at the couples from British Guiana who formed marriage, economic, and political partnerships either prior to, or after migration to Britain, and leveraged their relationships to ...

The 1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, with its three-masted sailing ship, carries the postal clerk Edmond D. Wight's initials to deter counterfeiters. Smithsonian's National Postal Museum To ...

Blemished, battered and cut, the "British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta" is a stamp with a twisty tale to tell, one that begins in the hands of a young Scottish boy and passes through the hands ...

All week long, raging mobs of Negroes surged through British Guiana’s Georgetown capital, looting stores, mercilessly beating any East Indian in their path. What started as a peaceful strike by ...

British Guiana is remembered for issuing a stamp that became the most valuable in the world, the one-cent Magenta of 1856. The last time the Magenta came on the market, in 1990, it was auctioned ...

CHURCH bells, conch shells, and DDT tell the grim tale of British Guiana’s headlong plunge toward economic and political chaos. A few miles outside the capital of Georgetown, in the rural Negro ...