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)

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

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