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:
Read more about List Of Postage Stamps: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bermuda, Brazil, British Guiana, Buenos Aires, Canada, Cape of Good Hope, China, Confederate States, Falkland Islands, Finland, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Hawaii, Honduras, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Libya, Mauritius, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Philippines, Romania, Russia, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay
Famous quotes containing the words postage stamps, list of, list, postage and/or stamps:
“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Religious literature has eminent examples, and if we run over our private list of poets, critics, philanthropists and philosophers, we shall find them infected with this dropsy and elephantiasis, which we ought to have tapped.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“I made a list of things I have
to remember and a list
of things I want to forget,
but I see they are the same list.”
—Linda Pastan (b. 1932)
“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Even in harmonious families there is this double life: the group life, which is the one we can observe in our neighbour’s household, and, underneath, another—secret and passionate and intense—which is the real life that stamps the faces and gives character to the voices of our friends. Always in his mind each member of these social units is escaping, running away, trying to break the net which circumstances and his own affections have woven about him.”
—Willa Cather (1873–1947)