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List Of Notable 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) Current political entities Austria * Red Mercury – newspaper stamp Belgium * Leopold with the Epaulettes (1849) * Inverted Dendermonde (1920) Bermuda * Perot provisional Brazil * Bull's Eye * Goat's Eye Canada * Canada 12d black * Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper – Rarest Canadian stamp * Bluenose * St. Lawrence Seaway invert *Canada Scott 10 – 6d Deep Reddish Purple Pence 1857 *Canada Scott 13 – 6d Perforated Pence 1859 *Canada Scott 40e – Ten Cent Small Queen Pale Milky Rose Lilac First Montreal Printing 1874 China * Red Revenues – 1897 provisionals, issued by the Qing dynasty * Big Dragon stamp – the firs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Guiana 1856 1c Magenta Stamp
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories, and Crown Dependencies. ** Britishness, the British identity and common culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in the United Kingdom or, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *''Brit(ish)'', a 2018 memoir by Afua Hirsch *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) See also * Terminology of the British Isles * Alternative names for the British * English (other) * Britannic (other) * British Isles * Brit (other) * B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Red Revenue
The Red Revenues () are Qing dynasty Chinese revenue stamps that were overprinted (surcharged) to be used as postage stamps in 1897. Their limited number, fine design and the intaglio (printmaking), intaglio process made the stamps in this series some of the most sought-after in the world.Woo, L.Y. (吳樂園) (1983). Taipei: ''Overprinted Red Revenue Stamp Collection'' (紅印花加蓋郵票專集)Ministry of Transportation Post Office (1984). Taipei: ''Red Revenue stamps, Part I'' of 2 (紅印花郵票上編) There are several varieties of Red Revenue stamps, with the "Small One Dollar" being the rarest and most valuable. It has been called "China's rarest regularly issued stamp". In a 2013 Hong Kong auction, a single stamp was sold for HK$6.9 million. Another was sold in a 2013 Beijing auction for 7.22 million RMB, yuan. A block of four, considered the "crown jewel" of Chinese philately, was reportedly sold in 2009, together with a different stamp, for 120 million yuan (US$18.8 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Black Twenty Centimes
Black is a color which results from the absence or complete absorption of visible light. It is an achromatic color, without hue, like white and grey. It is often used symbolically or figuratively to represent darkness. Black and white have often been used to describe opposites such as good and evil, the Dark Ages versus Age of Enlightenment, and night versus day. Since the Middle Ages, black has been the symbolic color of solemnity and authority, and for this reason it is still commonly worn by judges and magistrates. Black was one of the first colors used by artists in Neolithic cave paintings. It was used in ancient Egypt and Greece as the color of the underworld. In the Roman Empire, it became the color of mourning, and over the centuries it was frequently associated with death, evil, witches, and magic. In the 14th century, it was worn by royalty, clergy, judges, and government officials in much of Europe. It became the color worn by English romantic poets, businessmen an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
