The first stamp was created in Great Britain on May 1, 1840. It wouldn't take long for people to start collecting them. Just one year later, a woman placed an ad in the London Times seeking ...

An $8.3m (£6.2m) stamp is returning to the UK for the first time in 143 years, after being sold at auction to a British rare stamp dealer. The British Guiana 1c Magenta was bought by rare stamp ...