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:
- Penny Black (Great Britain)
- Treskilling Yellow (Sweden)
- Bull's Eye (Brazil)
- British Guiana 1c magenta
- Mauritius "Post Office"
- Inverted Jenny (United States)
- Basel Dove (Switzerland)
Current political entities
Austria
- Red Mercury – newspaper stamp
Belgium
- Leopold with the Epaulettes (1849)
- Inverted Dendermonde (1920)
Bermuda
- Perot provisional
Brazil
- Bull's Eye
- Goat's Eye
Canada
- Canada 12d black
- Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper – Rarest Canadian stamp
- Bluenose
- St. Lawrence Seaway invert
China
- Red Revenues – 1897 provisionals, issued by the Qing dynasty
- Big Dragon stamp – the first official Chinese stamps, issued by the Qing dynasty
- The Whole Country is Red – 1968 design error stamp
- Golden Monkey stamp – 1980 Chinese zodiac stamp
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
- Baden 9 Kreuzer error – stamp printed on blue-green instead of pink paper
- One kreuzer black – issued 1849 in Bavaria, first German postage stamp
- Sachsen 3 Pfennige red – Saxony was the second German state to issue postage stamps
- Saxony 1/2g on light blue paper error
- Vineta provisional – an unauthorized issue
- Yacht issue – a common design of postage stamps for the German colonies
Honduras
- Black Honduras – Black airmail overprint (two currently known)
India
- Scinde Dawk – First stamps in Asia
- Inverted Head Four Annas
- Indian 10 Rupee Mahatma Gandhi postage stamp – Mahatma Gandhi 10 rupees stamp overprinted "SERVICE"
- Duttia – 2 annas with red seal (1894?), a possibly unique Indian Feudatory State stamp
Ireland
Italy
- Tuscany 3-lira ocher
- Tuscany 4-crazie Lion inverted tablet – Unique error
- Italy General Balbo triptych
- Gronchi Rosa
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
- Halfpenny Yellow (1860–84) – Malta's first stamp
- Saint Paul 10s black (1919) – one of Malta's rarest stamps
- Melita issue (1922–26) – stamp issue commemorating Malta's self-government
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
- Pagsanjan Falls stamp – A postage stamp issued on 3 May 1932, noted for its printing error
Romania
- Moldavian Bull's Heads – Issued by the principality of Moldavia in 1858
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
- Lady McLeod private local post
Uganda
- Uganda Cowries – The first stamps of Uganda, typewritten
United Kingdom
- Penny Black – World's first postage stamp
- Penny Blue – Trial printings from a penny black plate
- Two pence blue – Issued for second rate step, at the same time as Penny Black
- VR official – First official stamp
- Prince Consort Essay
- Penny Red – Improved follow-ons to the Penny Black
- Archer Roulette – Experimental separation of stamps
- Edward VII 2d Tyrian plum – Withdrawn before issue, but one used
- Postal Union Congress £1 stamp
Falkland Islands
Gibraltar
- Gibraltar 10c missing-value error
United States
- St. Louis Bears
- Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional – Unique, entire
- New York Postmaster's Provisional
- 1c Z grill – Rarest US stamp
- Black Bull – Dollar value of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Issue
- Pan-American invert
- Inverted Jenny – The "upside-down airplane"
- Dag Hammarskjöld invert – Error deliberately mass-produced
- CIA invert – Modern error
- Statue of Liberty Forever stamp (2011) – Largest run of an error on a US postage stamp (10.5 billion)
- Lost Continental – 1875 24c Winfield Scott
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
- Hawaiian Missionaries – First stamps of Hawaii
State of Buenos Aires
Western Australia (British colony)
External links
- Stamp Magazine online World's rarest stamps (archived version)
| History |
|  Envelope for mailing |
|---|---|---|
| Components | ||
| Delivery | ||
| Staff | ||
| Processing | ||
Institutions and systems |
| |
| Related | ||
| List of entities that have issued postage stamps | ||
| ||
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.