Stanley Gibbons

Welcome to the Home of Stamp Collecting.
We travel the world in search of rare and high-quality material to help you begin, further and complete your collections. 
With a distinguished heritage dating back to 1856, we are the world’s longest established rare stamp merchant. Our much-heralded experts are at the heart of everything we do and they travel globally in search of authentic, high-quality material often of extreme rarity and value.
To this day the Stanley Gibbons shop in London offers the broadest selection of retail philatelic stock of any store on the planet with over a million stamps available to browse and purchase.

Stanley Gibbons

Videos

In conversation with Jan Hofmeyr, FRPSL

What's in the Stanley Gibbons Vault Part 3

Spot the forgery – What’s in the Stanley Gibbons Vault Part 2

What's in the Stanley Gibbons Vault?

Rare stamps & postal history masterpieces | The David Holl Collection

The finest collection of Rhodesia Double Heads to come to market in over 30 years

Introducing Philately with Oscar Young

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Stamp collecting for beginners: How we value a collection

£5 vs £500,000? Worth It: The Value of the Penny Red | Stanley Gibbons

£20 Vs. £13,500? Worth It: The Value of the Penny Black | Stanley Gibbons

Choosing the Right Stamp Album for You | Stanley Gibbons

How To Use A Colour Key: The Rare Prussian Blue | Stanley Gibbons

Collecting Mail at 75 mph! The Travelling Post Office | Stanley Gibbons

Items of Philatelic Interest with George James

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Is This Hitler's Personal Stamp Collection? | Stanley Gibbons

One of the Greatest Scandals in Philatelic History? | Stanley Gibbons

Are Revenue Stamps The Most Underrated? | Stanley Gibbons

"Dangerous Forgeries and How to Spot Them" with George James | Stampex 2021

Setting a new philatelic world record at the Stanley Gibbons Auction House

Stanley Gibbons Reference Collection - One of the most important philatelic volumes

Stanley Gibbons Archive

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Stamp Nostalgia: Looking back at our childhood collections

The 1c Magenta arrives at the home of stamp collecting

Making a Magenta with Guy Gee | Stanley Gibbons

The QEII Platinum Jubilee Exhibition | Stanley Gibbons

From The Archive: The BBC visits Stanley Gibbons (1966)

EuroNews | The 'Mona Lisa of Stamps' goes on display at Stanley Gibbons