It's probably the most famous postage stamp ever. "Even a little kid starting to collect stamps knows about the upside down airmail stamp," Scott Trepel, president and owner of Robert A. Siegel ...

This undated photo provided by Spink, USA, shows a 1918 "inverted Jenny" stamp. Stolen in 1955, the stamp surfaced last week at Spink USA, a New York auction house. Considered America's most famous ...

A rare Inverted Jenny airmail stamp described as “the finest example” of its kind is headed for sale at Siegel Auction Galleries in New York, where it is expected to fetch US$1.5 million to US$2 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service did something unprecedented when it tried to boost stamp sales and kick-start public excitement about collecting: It reprinted ...

Tiny works of art, postage stamps tell the stories of our country and our world. They tell big stories (such as the Civil War), stories about nature (such as the spicebush swallowtail butterfly) and ...

Soon federal agents were hunting for him and demanding them back. The airplane on the stamps was — uh-oh — upside down. The clerk had stumbled across one of the most celebrated stamp mistakes in ...

A Bloomfield Township man secretly owned one of the world’s most famous postage stamps for more than four decades. Now Ronald Bassey’s secret is out as the rare ...

NEW YORK --One of thelongest mysteries in the stamp-collecting world is getting a new chapter. Six decades after four of the U.S. Postal Service's most celebrated misprints were brashly stolen from a ...

Reporting from NEW YORK — Opening a new chapter in a high-profile stamp-world mystery, a valuable “inverted Jenny” stamp has surfaced six decades after it was stolen at a collectors’ convention. The ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Opening a new chapter in an infamous stamp-world mystery, a valuable “inverted Jenny” stamp has surfaced six decades after it was stolen from a collectors’ convention. The stamp — one ...