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
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“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)
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—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“All is possible,
Who so list believe;
Trust therefore first, and after preve,
As men wed ladies by license and leave,
All is possible.”
—Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503?–1542)
“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)
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life’s page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)