The Penny Black. The World’s first postage stamp (image: wikimedia commons) “Philately” (get your mind out of the gutter) is the proper term for the studying of stamps and stamp collecting. It was ...

Its size is small, a few square centimetres, yet it must contain a lot of important information – there is not much room left for designing imagination. Nevertheless, postage stamps can be little ...

In a decidedly digital age, the modest postage stamp seems to be slowly vanishing from daily life—no longer ubiquitous in wallets or pocketbooks, useful but maybe not essential. They’re so overlooked ...