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
editAustria
edit- Red Mercury – newspaper stamp
Belgium
edit- Leopold with the Epaulettes (1849)
- Inverted Dendermonde (1920)
Brazil
editCanada
edit- Canada 12d black
- Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper – Rarest Canadian stamp
- Bluenose
China
edit- Red Revenues – 1897 provisionals, issued by the Qing dynasty
- The Whole Country is Red – 1968 design error stamp
- Golden Monkey stamp – 1980 Chinese zodiac stamp
France
edit- Ceres – France's first stamp
Germany
edit- 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
- Vineta provisional – an unauthorized issue
- Yacht issue – a common design of postage stamps for the German colonies
India
edit- Scinde Dawk – First stamps in Asia
- Inverted Head Four Annas
- Indian 10 Rupee Mahatma Gandhi postage stamp – Mahatma Gandhi 10 rupees stamp overprinted "SERVICE"
Ireland
editItaly
editJamaica
edit- Jamaica 1 shilling inverted-frame stamp error
- Jamaica 6d abolition of slavery postage stamp
- Jamaica 1956-58 £1 chocolate and violet
- Jamaica 1968 human rights stamps
Malta
edit- 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
editNew Zealand
edit- 1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert – Only one copy known
Romania
edit- Moldavian Bull's Heads – Issued by the principality of Moldavia in 1858
Russia
edit- 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
Sweden
edit- Treskilling Yellow – Unique error, world's record auction sales price for a postage stamp
Switzerland
editTrinidad
edit- Lady McLeod private local post
Uganda
edit- Uganda Cowries – The first stamps of Uganda, typewritten
United Kingdom
edit- 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
editUnited States
edit- 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
- Pagsanjan Falls stamp – A postage stamp issued on 3 May 1932, noted for its printing error
Uruguay
edit- 1856, 80c. green, Ferrer block of 15 – Unique
Former political entities
editBritish Guiana
editCeylon
edit- Dull Rose – A 4 pence denomination issued on 23 April 1859, considered the most valuable stamp of Ceylon
Kingdom of Hawaii
edit- Hawaiian Missionaries – First stamps of Hawaii
State of Buenos Aires
editWestern Australia (British colony)
editSee also
editReferences
editExternal links
edit- Stamp Magazine online World's rarest stamps (archived 9 August 2010)