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 (1840 - Great Britain) Two Penny Blue (1840 - Great Britain) Bull's Eye (1843 - Brazil) Basel Dove (1845 - Switzerland) Mauritius "Post Office" (1847 - British Colony Mauritius) British Guiana 1c magenta (1856 - British Guiana) Treskilling Yellow (1857 - Sweden) Inverted Jenny (1918 - United States)

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 (1840) – World's first postage stamp Penny Black VR official (1840) – First official stamp Penny Blue (1840) – Trial printings from a Penny Black plate Two Penny Blue (1840) – Issued for second rate step, at the same time as Penny Black Penny Red (1841) – Improved follow-ons to the Penny Black Prince Consort Essay (1851) - A surface printed printer's sample stamp Penny Lilac (1881) – The most issued Victorian stamp Edward VII 2d Tyrian plum (1910) – Withdrawn before issue, but one used Postal Union Congress £1 stamp (1929)

Falkland Islands HMS Glasgow error

United States

St. Louis Bears (1845-46) New York Postmaster's Provisional (1845-47) Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional (1847) – Unique, entire 1c Z grill (1868) – Rarest US stamp Lost Continental – 1875 24c Winfield Scott Black Bull – Dollar value of the 1898 Trans-Mississippi Issue Pan-American invert (1901) - printing error Inverted Jenny (1918) – The "upside-down airplane" Pagsanjan Falls stamp (1932) – printing error Dag Hammarskjöld invert (1962) – Error deliberately mass-produced CIA invert (1979) – Modern error Legends of the West (1994) - printing error of wrong individual Statue of Liberty Forever stamp (2011) – Largest run of an error on a US postage stamp (10.5 billion)

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

Kingdom of the Two Sicilies Sicilian Error of Color

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

Western Australia (British colony) Black Swan Inverted Swan

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