List of postage stamps
This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way.
The best-known stamps:
By country:
Australia
Austria
Bermuda
Brazil
British Guiana
Canada
Cape of Good Hope
- Cape 4d black Triangle
- Cape 4d red error of color
Falkland Islands
- Falkland Islands HMS Glasgow error - wrong ship on a modern stamp
Finland
- Finland 20k black stamped envelope - most valuable postal stationery
France
- One franc vermillion
- Black twenty centimes
German East Africa
- German East Africa 1 rupee used at Tabora
Germany
- Baden 9kr blue-green error of color
- Saxony 3pf red sheet
- Saxony 1/2g on light blue paper error
- Vineta provisional
Gibraltar
- Gibraltar 10c missing-value error
Hawaii
- Hawaiian Missionaries - first stamps of Hawaii
Honduras
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 India
- India Queen Victoria invert
Italy
- Tuscany 3-lira ocher
- Italy General Balbo triptych
- Gronchi Rosa
Jamaica
- Jamaica 1sh inverted-frame error
Japan
- Sutherland local boos
- Japan 500m Dragon invert
Macedonia
- Mount Athos An issue contemplated for the Holy community
Sweden
Switzerland
Uganda
- Uganda Cowries - first stamps of Uganda, produced on typewriter
Britain
See also list of British postage stamps
United States
- St. Louis Bear
- New York Postmaster's Provisional
- United States 1c Z grill - rarest US stamp
- Black Bull - dollar value of 1898 Trans-Miss
- Inverted Jenny - the "upside-down airplane"
- Dag Hammersjold invert - error deliberately mass-produced
- CIA invert - modern error