List of postage stamps

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
Canada Scott 10 – 6d Deep Reddish Purple Pence 1857
Canada Scott 13 – 6d Perforated Pence 1859
Canada Scott 40e – Ten Cent Small Queen Pale Milky Rose Lilac First Montreal Printing 1874
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
Greece
"Solferino" – Large Hermes head of 40 lepta, lilac-rose on greenish paper (1871) – image
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
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 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
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
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 offense (with a very small number sold by mistake)
1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert – Only one copy known
Romania
Moldavian Bull's Heads – Issued by the principality of Moldavia in 1858
Russia
Russian Empire
(Tiflis unique) (1857) – One of the rarest Russian stamps, issued in Tiflis, Georgia; only three specimens known
First stamp of the Russian Empire (1857)
(1908) – A very rare Russian stamp; 15–20 specimens may exist
RSFSR
(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
(1925) – 15-kopeck yellow, "Peasant", Gold Standard issue, if in mint condition
(1931) – A very rare Soviet stamp, especially if imperforate; 24 imperforate specimens known
(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
(1935) – San Francisco inverted surcharge with small Cyrillic "f"; possibly unique (see also Overprint#Commemorative overprints)
(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
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
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
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
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
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)
Black Swan
Inverted Swan
See also
List of most expensive philatelic items
References
External links
Stamp Magazine online World's rarest stamps (archived 9 August 2010)