with a price estimate of up to $8.25 million SOUNDBITE) (English) OWNER OF PENNY BLACK, ALAN HOLYOAKE, SAYING:"The auction price in sterling will be set at between four and 6 million. I'd be ...

The Penny Black, which introduced a flat rate, was used starting May 6, 1840. Before that, the recipient paid the postage cost. The world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is going up for ...

The most valuable stamp in the world, the British Guiana One-Cent Black on Magenta, failed to set yet another world record at auction. Despite great expectations, the British Guiana One-Cent Black on ...

The postage stamp that started it all is going under the gavel. The coveted 18th-century rarity, known as the Penny Black, was the world’s first postage stamp and represents the very dawn of social ...

An ultra-rare U.S. postage stamp is going under the hammer this summer — and it may fetch as much as $5 million. Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries in New York recently announced that it will be ...

A rare, 12-cent U.S. postage stamp showing an image of our nation’s first president sold for tens of thousands of dollars at auction last month. The stamp, which includes a portrait bust of George ...

An example of the world's first postage stamp, the Penny Black, is being offered at a Sotheby’s auction in December. Dating from 1840, the item is "the earliest securely dated example of the first ...

(CNN) – A block of the world’s second official postage stamp is going up for auction in May. It is expected to fetch millions of dollars. The Great Britain Two Pence Blue stamp of Queen Victoria was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The world's first-ever stamp will go up for auction later this year. The unused Penny Black is part of a document that's expected ...

The Penny Black, dating from 1840, will be part of Sotheby’s “Treasures” sale on Dec. 7, the auction house announced Tuesday. This Penny Black was from the first sheet printed, the Australian ...