KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine, June 10, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The Postal Service today issued a commemorative stamp honoring the life ...

this unique piece was produced during a stamp shortage in British Guiana. Only one copy is known to exist, discovered by a 12-year-old Scottish boy in 1873. It sold for a mind-boggling $9.5 ...

The stamp was discovered by a Manchester dealer ... In 2014, $12.2 million was paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta; in 2021, this was trumped by the sale of an envelope bearing a Mauritius ...

The all-time record for a stamp sold belongs to a one-cent magenta British Guiana stamp, which sold for over $8 million previously. Gross acquired the highly coveted stamp in 2003 by trading a 24 ...

which would make it the single most expensive US stamp ever sold. (It’s surpassed internationally by the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta, which sold in 2021 for $8.3 million.) The reason for the ...

The British Guiana 1c magenta is a legendary stamp that was issued in British Guiana (now Guyana) in 1856. It is the only surviving example of a provisional issue that was printed locally when the ...

The British Guiana One Cent Magenta is the world's rarest stamp — there's only one of them after all. The world's rarest — and most expensive — stamp is going on display in London this ...

Known to philatelists as the "Mona Lisa of stamps," the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta is the world's most famous rare stamp. It entered limited production in 1856 and today only one copy is ...

They are often stamps with a story such as the Penny Black or the British Guiana, the most expensive stamp in the world which has an entire book written about it. A leading US stamp authority ...

The unique 1856 1c Magenta from British Guiana was bought at auction in the USA. The sale makes it the world's most expensive stamp. The world's most famous and valuable stamp - the 1c Magenta ...