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List of postage stamps

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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:

Contents

  • 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)

    • 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
  • Chinese Golden Monkey stamp – 1980 Chinese zodiac stamp
  • The Whole Country is Red – 1968 design error 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 unauthorised 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
  • India 10 Rupees 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

  • 1935 Irish 2d coil stamp

    • Italy

  • Tuscany 3-lira ocher
  • Tuscany 4-crazie Lion inverted tablet – Unique error
  • Italy General Balbo triptych
  • Gronchi Rosa

    • Jamaica

  • Jamaica 1sh inverted-frame error
  • Jamaica 6d abolition of slavery
  • Jamaica 1956-58 £1 chocolate and violet
  • Jamaica human rights set of three

    • 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 minisheet on 31 December 1994

    • Malta

  • Halfpenny Yellow (1860) – Malta's first stamp
  • Saint Paul 10s black (1919) – Malta's most expensive stamp

    • Mauritius

  • Mauritius "Post Office" stamps

    • 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
  • Maori Performing Arts stamps – Sets of five stamps printed but destroyed before release, after causing public offence (with a very small number sold by mistake)
  • 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

  • Cap de bour – 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

  • 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

  • Basel Dove
  • Double Geneva
  • Zurich 4 and 6

    • Uganda

  • Uganda Missionaries - 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 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

  • HMS Glasgow error

    • 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

    • British Guiana

  • British Guiana 1c magenta

    • 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

  • Buenos Aires 1859 1p "In Ps" tete-beche pair

    • Western Australia (British colony)

  • Inverted Swan

    • References

    List of postage stamps Wikipedia
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