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This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way. This 1974 stamp from Japan depicts a Class 8620 steam locomotive. ...
The best-known stamps:
By country: For the research project, see Penny Black (research project). ...
A Mauritian Red Penny The Mauritius Post Office postage stamps are amongst the rarest and most valuable stamps in the world. ...
British Guiana 1¢ magenta The British Guiana 1¢ magenta is among the rarest of all postage stamps. ...
The Treskilling yellow The Treskilling Yellow, or 3 skilling banco error of color, is a postage stamp of Sweden, and as of 2004 the most valuable stamp in the world. ...
The inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp of 1918 in which the airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down. ...
Argentina
- Buenos Aires 1859 1-peso tete-beche pair - unique
Australia The Inverted Swan, a 4-pence blue postage stamp issued in 1855 by Western Australia, is the worlds first invert error (technically a frame invert). In 1854, Western Australia issued its first stamps, featuring the colonys symbol, the Black Swan, as did all WA stamps until 1902. ...
Austria Red mercury is a substance reputedly used for the creation of nuclear bombs, due to the belief that red mercury is a ballotechnic material. ...
Bermuda
Brazil In Portuguese: Olhos de boi This page is a candidate for speedy deletion. ...
British Guiana British Guiana 1¢ magenta The British Guiana 1¢ magenta is among the rarest of all postage stamps. ...
Canada The 2c Large Queen on laid paper is the rarest postage stamp of Canada. ...
Bluenose is winning a 1926 race against Columbia on this postage stamp of 1929. ...
Cape of Good Hope - Cape 4d black Triangle
- Cape 4d red error of color
Falkland Islands - Falkland Islands HMS Glasgow error - wrong ship on a modern stamp
Finland - Finland 20k black stamped envelope - most valuable postal stationery
France - One franc vermilion
- Black twenty centimes
German East Africa - German East Africa 1 rupee used at Tabora
Germany - Baden 9kr blue-green error of color
- Saxony 3pf red sheet
- Saxony 1/2g on light blue paper error
- Vineta provisional
Gibraltar - Gibraltar 10c missing-value error
Great Britain See also list of British postage stamps For the research project, see Penny Black (research project). ...
The Penny Blue is an unissued type of postage stamp of Britain. ...
For the research project, see Penny Black (research project). ...
The VR official was one of three postage stamps introduced by the United Kingdom for the pre-payment of postage in May 1840. ...
The Prince Consort Essay was a surface printed postage stamp essay, created in 1850 as an example of the surface printed stamps that Henry Archer proposed to print and perforate under contract with the British government at a lower price than the current printing firm of Perkins Bacon. ...
The Penny Red, issued in 1841, succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom until 1879, with only minor changes to the design during that time. ...
Henry Archer, an Irish London businessman, presented the British Government with an easy means of separating postage stamps. ...
The two pence (2d) Tyrian plum is a postage stamp that was produced by Britain in 1910 as a replacement for the bi-coloured stamp which was in current use at the time. ...
This is a list of postage stamps issued by the United Kingdom (normally referred to as Great Britain in phitatelic usage). ...
Hawaii - Hawaiian Missionaries - first stamps of Hawaii
Honduras - Black Honduras - black airmail overprint, two known
Hong Kong - Hong Kong Jubilee 1891 - first overprinted commemorative stamp in the world
- George VI - Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee 1948
India - Scinde Dawk - first stamps of India
- India Queen Victoria invert
Bartle Ferere, the Commissioner of Sind, introduced paper stamps in token of prepayment of postage in 1852. ...
Italy - Tuscany 3-lira ocher
- Tuscany 4-crazie Lion inverted tablet - unique error
- Italy General Balbo triptych
- Gronchi Rosa
The Gronchi Rosa is a rare Italian postage stamp. ...
Jamaica - Jamaica 1sh inverted-frame error
Japan - Sutherland local boos
- Japan 500m Dragon invert
Macedonia - Mount Athos An issue contemplated for the Holy community
One of the 20 monasteries on Mount Athos Mount Athos is a mountain and a peninsula in Macedonia, northern Greece, called Άγιο ÎŒÏος (Ayio Oros or Holy Mountain) in Modern Greek, or á¼Î³Î¹Î¿Î½ ὌÏος (Hagion Oros) in Classical Greek. ...
Mauritius A Mauritian Red Penny The Mauritius Post Office postage stamps are amongst the rarest and most valuable stamps in the world. ...
A Mauritian Red Penny The Mauritius Post Office postage stamps are amongst the rarest and most valuable stamps in the world. ...
Pakistan
Sweden The Treskilling yellow The Treskilling Yellow, or 3 skilling banco error of color, is a postage stamp of Sweden, and as of 2004 the most valuable stamp in the world. ...
Switzerland Basel Dove 1845 The Basel Dove is a notable stamp from Switzerland. ...
Uganda Uganda Cowries - first stamps of Uganda, produced on typewriter ...
United States - Available US stamp denominations
- St. Louis Bear
- New York Postmaster's Provisional
- United States 1c Z grill - rarest US stamp
- Black Bull - dollar value of 1898 Trans-Miss
- Inverted Jenny - the "upside-down airplane"
- Dag Hammarskjold invert - error deliberately mass-produced
- CIA invert - modern error
Available US stamp denominations: Regular Postage Single or Sheet (panes of up to 100) $0. ...
Flag cancel used on a 2c Trans-Miss The Trans-Mississippi Issue, or Trans-Miss for short, is a set of nine commemorative postage stamps issued by the United States to mark the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Exposition held in Omaha, Nebraska. ...
The inverted Jenny (or Jenny Invert) is a United States postage stamp of 1918 in which the airplane in the center of the design was accidentally printed upside-down. ...
Uruguay - Uruguay 180-centesimo Sol de Mayo red error of color - unique
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