Just one year later, a woman placed an ad in the London Times seeking "cancelled" stamps so she could wallpaper her dressing room with them. She already had succeeded in collecting 16,000 of them.

Ray Watts sold his stamp collection, worth an estimated £200,000, to Sue Pope, his cleaner, for £1 two years before his death, a court heard. Mr Watts, who died aged 90 in 2021, also went on to ...

Some compare the stamp collecting to a blessed version of baseball ... “Japanese people are seen as secular, but I think it’s a value that you cannot answer just by yes or no.” ...

A STAMP collector has handed his entire hoard worth £200,000 to his cleaner for just £1 and cut his “disrespectful ... Mrs Pope, who also acted as his informal carer, purchased the £200,000 stamp ...

Mr Watts had previously wanted to split his estate among his family, but wrote a new will in 2019, leaving most of his fortune to Mrs Pope, having already sold her his stamp collection for £1.

On top of her £200,000 share of Mr Watts’ estate Mrs Pope also got his stamp collection for a nominal sum. However she says it was worth no more than £40,000 rather than £200,000. The case ...

Discover the striking displays of Asia's first postage stamp, the Scinde Dawk, alongside the iconic Penny Black at ...

MANILA, Philippines — Despite the advent of technology, stamp collection is not dead, according to Jeremiah Eufemio of the Philippine Stamp Collectors Society (PSCS). Philately will continue to ...

Stamp duty is structured so that buyers will pay the tax only on the amount they exceed the lower limit of their band. For example, someone buying a primary home worth 295,000 wouldn't pay a perce ...

The King Abdulaziz Public Library in Riyadh has revealed a rare collection of postage stamps that chronicle contemporary ...

is within the grounds of the main home and is worth no more than a third of the overall value of the property, you won't have to pay the extra charge. I've split up with my partner but my name is ...