List of postage stamps

The British Guiana 1c magenta.

This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way, often due to antiquity or a postage stamp error.

The best-known stamps:

• Treskilling Yellow (Sweden)
• Penny Black (Britain)
• Bull's Eye (Brazil)
• British Guiana 1c magenta
• Mauritius "Post Office"
• Inverted Jenny (United States)
• Basel Dove (Switzerland)
• Benjamin Franklin Z Grill (United States)

By country:

Argentina

• Buenos Aires 1859 1-peso tete-beche pair - unique

Australia

• Inverted Swan

Austria

• Red Mercury

Belgium

• Inverted Dendermonde

Bermuda

• Perot provisional

Brazil

• Bull's Eye
• Goat's Eye

British Guiana

• British Guiana 1c magenta - unique

Canada

• Canada 12d black
• Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper - rarest Canadian stamp
• Bluenose
• St. Lawrence Seaway invert

Cape of Good Hope

• Cape 4d black Triangle
• Cape 4d red error of color

China

• Chinese Golden Monkey stamp - PRC 1980 Chinese zodiac stamp
• Red Revenues - 1897 Provisionals

Confederate States

• CSA #10 - rarest Confederate Stamp

Falkland Islands

• HMS Glasgow error

Finland

• Finland 20k black stamped envelope - most valuable postal stationery

France

• Ceres - France's first stamp
• One franc vermilion
• Black twenty centimes

Germany

• Baden 9kr blue-green error of color
• Bavaria one Kreuzer black
• Saxony 3pf red sheet
• Saxony 1/2g on light blue paper error
• Vineta provisional
• Yacht issue

Gibraltar

• Gibraltar 10c missing-value error

Hawaii

• Hawaiian Missionaries - first stamps of Hawaii

Honduras

• Black Honduras - black airmail overprint, two known

Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Jubilee 1891 - first overprinted commemorative stamp in the world
• George VI - Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee 1948

India

• Scinde Dawk - first stamps of Asia
• Inverted Head Four Annas
• Mahatma Gandhi 10 Rupees overprinted "SERVICE"
• Duttia 1894 Issue 2 Annas with red seal - most valuable Indian Feudatory State stamp

Ireland

• The Rare 2d Coil

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• "Khadafi" 1986 - ordinary set of 12 stamps; error in design; withdrawn from circulation few hours after the issue on 01.01.1986
• "Khadafi Prize" 1994 - minisheet of 16 stamps; errors in design; not released and substituted with a correct minisheet on 31.12.1994

Mauritius

• Mauritius "Post Office"

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. However some were sold.[1]
• Maori Performing Arts stamps – sets of 5 stamps printed but destroyed before release after causing public offence, a very small number were sold by mistake. [2]
• 1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert- only one copy is known.

Philippines

• Pagsanjan Falls stamp - a postage stamp issued on 3 May 1932, which is notable for having an error.

Romania

• Cap de bour - issued by the principality of Moldova in 1858

Russia

• Tiflis stamp (Tiflis unique) – one of the rarest Russian stamp issued in Tiflis, Georgia (1857), only three specimens known
• Red Army man – one of the rarest Russian stamp (1922-1923), only 4 specimens known
• Aspidka – a very rare Russian stamp, especially if imperforate (1931), 24 imperforate specimens known
• Consular tax stamp (Consular poltinnik) – a very rare 50-kopeck Russian stamp (1922), 50-75 specimens available (estimate)
• Limonka – a very rare Russian stamp if in mint condition (1925)
• Be a hero! – the first Russian stamp depicting a World War II motif (1941), rare
• Tokyo souvenir sheet (Green block) – the first Russian numbered souvenir sheet (1964), rare
• First Russian stamp – issued in 1857

Sri Lanka

• Dull Rose - a 4 pence denomination issued on 23rd April 1859, considered the most valuable stamp of Sri Lanka

Sweden

• Treskilling Yellow - unique error, world's record auction sales price for a postage stamp.

Switzerland

• Basel Dove
• Double Geneva
• Zurich 4 and Zurich 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

See also list of British postage stamps

United States

• St. Louis Bear
• Alexandria "Blue Boy" Postmaster's Provisional - Unique, entire.
• New York Postmaster's Provisional
• 1c Z grill - rarest US stamp
• Black Bull - dollar value of 1898 Trans-Mississippi
• Pan-American invert
• Inverted Jenny - the "upside-down airplane"
• Dag Hammarskjöld invert - error deliberately mass-produced
• CIA invert - modern error
• Forever Statue of Liberty Stamp (2011)- largest run of an error on a US postage stamp (10.5 billion)

See also list of United States airmail stamps or Commons:Stamps of the United States

Uruguay

• Uruguay 180-centesimo Sol de Mayo red error of color - unique

External links

• Stamp Magazine online World's rarest stamps