# 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)

### Brazil

* Bull's Eye

### Canada

* Canada 12d black
* Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper – Rarest Canadian stamp
* Bluenose

### China

* 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

* Ceres – France's first stamp

### 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
* Vineta provisional – an unauthorized issue
* Yacht issue – a common design of postage stamps for the German colonies

### 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"

### Ireland

* 1935 Irish 2d coil stamp

### Italy

* Gronchi Rosa

### Jamaica

* 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

* 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

* Mauritius "Post Office" stamps

### New Zealand

* 1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert – Only one copy known

### Romania

* Moldavian Bull's Heads – Issued by the principality of Moldavia in 1858

### Russia

* First stamp of the Russian Empire (1857)
* 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

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

### Switzerland

* Basel Dove
* Double Geneva
* Zürich 4 and 6

### 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

* HMS Glasgow 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
* Pagsanjan Falls stamp – A postage stamp issued on 3 May 1932, noted for its printing error

### Uruguay

* 1856, 80c. green, Ferrer block of 15 – Unique

## Former political entities
### 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

### 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)

* Black Swan
* Inverted Swan