It has become a stamp collector's holy grail ... but even two decades before the Penny Black was printed it was clear something needed to be done. James Chalmers, a bookseller and printer from ...

Sotheby’s state that all that’s known about the letter’s sender is that they posted the missive in London — about 300 miles to the south — and paid for it with the Penny Black stamp.

An example of the world's first postage stamp - the Penny Black - bearing an image of Queen Victoria is set to fetch as much as £6m at auction. Launched in 1840, the item is "the earliest ...

One of the world’s first postage stamps is expected to fetch £6 million when it goes under the hammer at Sotheby’s in December. The Penny Black stamp, which dates from April 1840, is ...

Stanley Gibbons investment director Keith Heddle has told us about seven of the best sellers: The most expensive stamp Stanley Gibbons has sold is a British Penny Red, for £550,000 - not bad for ...

On the first day of the world’s first universal national postal service, a single letter was sent with two of the pioneering ...

The 175th anniversary of the world's first postage stamp is being marked with a new set of stamps The Penny Black went on sale on May 1, 1840, for use on letters being delivered anywhere in the UK ...

Included in one of the books of stamps is a Penny Black, the very first stamp in the world. Or, maybe not. The stamps are not well protected, and they were left even further unprotected with an ...

The world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system, the Penny Black, is being celebrated in a Google Doodle on its 175th anniversary. Featuring a profile of Queen Victoria ...