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 ...
If you’ve ever come across an old stamp collection and wondered if it might be worth something, you’re not alone. Collecting ...
Arguably the most famous and valuable stamp in the world, the British Guiana 1-Cent Magenta has achieved near-mythic status. Issued in 1856 in what is now Guyana, this small, faded red stamp was ...
A. A friend gifted me this older book of foreign postage stamps. They all seem to have been used and canceled. I think many date to the 1940s and before. Written in German on the first page is that ...
Margot Friedländer, the well-known German Holocaust survivor who died at age 103 in May, will be honoured in her native ...
Why is it precisely the flawed specimens that get stamp collectors so excited? And what has an uncle from Saxony got to do with all this? Our Havana-based colleague and author Michael Thoss has been ...
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Elvis Presley, Buddy Holly, Jim Morrison and John Lennon were pictured on stamps issued April 14 by the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany). The four stamps were part of the ”For The Youth” ...
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