List of postage stamps

This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way, often due to antiquity or a postage stamp error. Among the best-known stamps are:

Current political entities

Austria

Belgium

Bermuda

  • Perot provisional

Brazil

Canada

China

Hong Kong

  • Hong Kong Jubilee 1891 – First overprinted commemorative stamp in the world (Commons Image)
  • George VI - Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee 1948

Finland

  • Finland Zeppelin "1830"
  • Finland 20k black stamped envelope – Most valuable postal stationery

France

  • Ceres – France's first stamp
  • One franc vermilion
  • Black twenty centimes

Germany

Honduras

  • Black Honduras – Black airmail overprint (two currently known)

India

Ireland

Italy

Jamaica

Japan

  • Japan 500m Dragon invert

Libya

  • "Khadafi" 1986 – Ordinary set of 12 stamps; error in design resulted in its withdraw from circulation hours after being issued on 1 January 1986
  • "Khadafi Prize" 1994 – Minisheet of 16 stamps; errors in design resulted in them not being released and instead substituted with a correct mini sheet on 31 December 1994

Malta

Mauritius

The Netherlands

  • Wilhelmina 5 cent orange (1891) – Creation of Carl Gietzelt, an employee of Joh. Enschedé; mentioned in NVPH as 35f.; 24 are known to exist, 10 are used of which 3 on cover
  • 7½ cent dark violet, syncopated type D (1927) – Three-hole, four-sided interrupted perforation

New Zealand

  • 1906 Christchurch Exhibition 1d Claret Colour – Miscoloured
  • 1996 Teddy Bear Health Stamp – Withdrawn because it showed an incorrect use of a car child restraint, though a number were still sold[1]
  • Maori Performing Arts stamps – Sets of five stamps printed but destroyed before release, after causing public offense (with a very small number sold by mistake)[2]
  • 1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert – Only one copy known

Philippines

Romania

Russian Empire

  • Tiflis stamp (Tiflis unique) (1857) – One of the rarest Russian stamps issued in Tiflis, Georgia; only three specimens known
  • First stamp of the Russian Empire (1857)
  • Three pearls (1908) – A very rare Russian stamp with "Three pears" design; 15–20 specimens may exist

RSFSR

  • Consular poltinnik (1922) – A rare 50-kopeck Russian consular tax stamp with Air Post and 1,200m overprint; estimated 50–75 specimens in existence; overprint type IV occurs only twice per setting of 25, hence only four can exist
  • R.S.F.S.R. Definitives tête-bêche block (1922) – 7,500-ruble blue, horizontal watermark, gutter tête-bêche block of four; possibly unique
  • 70r Red Army Soldier error (1922) – 70-ruble perforated 12.5 or imperforate orange red error; position 72 in part of the issue; 4 imperforate specimens known

Soviet Union

The 1932 Personalised Kartonka
  • Soviet Air Post "Wide 5" surcharged (1924) – A surcharge of 10 kopecks on 5-ruble green type II, basic stamp wide "5", complete pane of 25; unique
  • Limonka (1925) – 15-kopeck yellow, "Peasant", Gold Standard issue, if in mint condition
  • Aspidka (1931) – A very rare Soviet stamp, especially if imperforate; 24 imperforate specimens known
  • Personalised Kartonka (1932) – "All-Soviet Philatelic Exhibition" in Moscow, souvenir sheet of four on thick card, with three line overprint "To the best shock worker of the All Russian Philatelic Society – President of the Moscow Philatelic Organization E.M. Nurk"; 25 were issued
  • Levanevsky with overprint (1935) – San Francisco inverted surcharge with small Cyrillic "f"; possibly unique (see also Overprint#Commemorative overprints)
  • Green souvenir sheet (1964) – Plate error (asymmetric star) of the first Soviet numbered Tokyo Olympic souvenir sheet

South Africa

  • Cape 4d black Triangle
  • Cape 4d red error of color

Sweden

  • Treskilling Yellow – Unique error, world's record auction sales price for a postage stamp

Switzerland

Trinidad

Uganda

United Kingdom

Falkland Islands

Gibraltar

  • Gibraltar 10c missing-value error

United States

Uruguay

  • 1856, 80c. green, Ferrer block of 15 – Unique
  • 1858, 120c. blue, tête-bêche vertical pair – Unique
  • 1858, 180c Sol de Mayo red error of color – Unique
  • 1858, 180c. green, in mixed franking with 1860 thick figures 60 c. brown lilac – Unique on cover

Former political entities

British Guiana

Ceylon

  • Dull Rose – A 4 pence denomination issued on 23 April 1859, considered the most valuable stamp of Ceylon

Confederate States of America

  • CSA #10 – Rarest Confederate stamp

Kingdom of Hawaii

State of Buenos Aires

Western Australia (British colony)

References

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