Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The British Penny Black, the world’s first pre-paid postage stamp, was issued in May 1840 but the excitement ...

On 1st March 2022 the first class postage stamp rate was increased to €1.25 for a standard letter, but someday in the future those very stamps may be worth keeping as an investment. You may be ...

Counterfeiting was widespread in the Victorian Era. Examples from this period could contain known design flaws, such as a missing line from a scroll. Today, beware of repairs. Colour touchups and ...

Considered a recreation of times long foregone, stamp collection as a hobby is slowly but surely finding its way back into the laps of passionate collectors who wish to enrich their shelves with ...

One o'clock on November 22, 2006, a Wednesday, and I am standing outside the door of my marriage guidance counsellor's house in North London. I have an album containing £40,000 of stamps under my arm ...

BRITS who have an old stamp collection cluttering up their home may not realise they could be sitting on a small fortune. Stamp collecting has seen a decline in popularity, largely attributed to the ...