Issued in Alexandria, Virginia, it is one of the rarest and most desirable stamps from the early days of American postal history, with only seven examples known to exist. In 2019, one fetched $1. ...

Case in point: I heard mention about the first U.S. postage stamp being issued in 1847. I doubted that, because the Stamp Act (one of the oppressive actions that led American colonists to revolt ...

Much like the spark and humor that grounded White, the stamp will not expire. A forever stamp, the postage will always represent the current price of a 1-ounce First-Class Mail postage. All ...

The 1868 One-cent “Z” Grill stamp was issued by the U.S. postal service shortly after the American Civil War using a rare manufacturing method intended to prevent people from washing the ink ...

Many collectors today wonder if postage stamps are good investments. While some rare and historical stamps ... like The ...

Martha Washington was the first American woman to have her image on a postage stamp (1902). (Queen Isabella of Spain was the first woman to appear on a U.S. postage stamp, in 1893.) Pocahontas was ...