List of postage stamps

• Penny Black
• Treskilling Yellow
• Bull's Eye
• British Guiana 1c magenta
• Mauritius "Post Office"
• Inverted Jenny
• Basel Dove

  Current political entities

Austria

• Red Mercury – newspaper stamp

  Belgium

• Leopold with the Epaulettes
• Inverted Dendermonde

  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

  China

• Red Revenues – 1897 provisionals, issued by the Qing dynasty
• Big Dragon stamp – the first official Chinese stamps, issued by the Qing dynasty
• The Whole Country is Red – 1968 design error stamp
• Golden Monkey stamp – 1980 Chinese zodiac stamp

  Hong Kong

• Hong Kong Jubilee 1891 – First overprinted commemorative stamp in the world
• George VI - Queen Elizabeth Silver Jubilee 1948

  Finland

• Finland Zeppelin "1830"
• Finland 20k black stamped envelope – Most valuable postal stationery

  France

• Ceres – France's first stamp
• One franc vermilion
• Black twenty centimes

  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
• Saxony 1/2g on light blue paper error
• Vineta provisional – an unauthorized issue
• Yacht issue – a common design of postage stamps for the German colonies

  Honduras

• – Black airmail overprint

  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"
• Duttia – 2 annas with red seal, a possibly unique Indian Feudatory State stamp

  Ireland

• 1935 Irish 2d coil stamp

  Italy

• Tuscany 3-lira ocher
• Tuscany 4-crazie Lion inverted tablet – Unique error
• Italy General Balbo triptych
• 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

  Japan

• Japan 500m Dragon invert

  Libya

• "Khadafi" 1986 – Ordinary set of 12 stamps; error in design resulted in its withdraw from circulation hours after being issued on 1 January 1986
• "Khadafi Prize" 1994 – Minisheet of 16 stamps; errors in design resulted in them not being released and instead substituted with a correct mini sheet on 31 December 1994

  Malta

• Halfpenny Yellow – Malta's first stamp
• Saint Paul 10s black – one of Malta's rarest stamps
• Melita issue – stamp issue commemorating Malta's self-government

  Mauritius

• Mauritius "Post Office" stamps

  The Netherlands

• Wilhelmina 5 cent orange – Creation of Carl Gietzelt, an employee of Joh. Enschedé; mentioned in NVPH as 35f.; 24 are known to exist, 10 are used of which 3 on cover
• 7½ cent dark violet, syncopated type D – Three-hole, four-sided interrupted perforation

  New Zealand

• 1906 Christchurch Exhibition 1d Claret Colour – Miscoloured
• 1996 Teddy Bear Health Stamp – Withdrawn because it showed an incorrect use of a car child restraint, though a number were still sold
• Maori Performing Arts stamps – Sets of five stamps printed but destroyed before release, after causing public offense
• 1904 Pictorial 4d Lake Taupo invert – Only one copy known

  Philippines

• Pagsanjan Falls stamp – A postage stamp issued on 3 May 1932, noted for its printing error

  Romania

• Moldavian Bull's Heads – Issued by the principality of Moldavia in 1858

  Russia

Russian Empire

• – One of the rarest Russian stamps issued in Tiflis, Georgia; only three specimens known
• First stamp of the Russian Empire
• – A very rare Russian stamp with "Three pears" design; 15–20 specimens may exist

  RSFSR

• – A rare 50-kopeck Russian consular tax stamp with Air Post and 1,200m overprint; estimated 50–75 specimens in existence; overprint type IV occurs only twice per setting of 25, hence only four can exist
• R.S.F.S.R. Definitives tête-bêche block – 7,500-ruble blue, horizontal watermark, gutter tête-bêche block of four; possibly unique
• 70r Red Army Soldier error – 70-ruble perforated 12.5 or imperforate orange red error; position 72 in part of the issue; 4 imperforate specimens known

  Soviet Union

• Soviet Air Post "Wide 5" surcharged – A surcharge of 10 kopecks on 5-ruble green type II, basic stamp wide "5", complete pane of 25; unique
• – 15-kopeck yellow, "Peasant", Gold Standard issue, if in mint condition
• – A very rare Soviet stamp, especially if imperforate; 24 imperforate specimens known
• – "All-Soviet Philatelic Exhibition" in Moscow, souvenir sheet of four on thick card, with three line overprint "To the best shock worker of the All Russian Philatelic Society – President of the Moscow Philatelic Organization E.M. Nurk"; 25 were issued
• – San Francisco inverted surcharge with small Cyrillic "f"; possibly unique
• – Plate error of the first Soviet numbered Tokyo Olympic souvenir sheet

  South Africa

• Cape 4d black Triangle
• Cape 4d red error of color

  Sweden

• Treskilling Yellow – Unique error, world's record auction sales price for a postage stamp

  Switzerland

• Basel Dove
• Double Geneva
• Zurich 4 and 6

  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

  Gibraltar

• Gibraltar 10c missing-value 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 – Largest run of an error on a US postage stamp
• Lost Continental – 1875 24c Winfield Scott

  Uruguay

• 1856, 80c. green, Ferrer block of 15 – Unique
• 1858, 120c. blue, tête-bêche vertical pair – Unique
• 1858, 180c Sol de Mayo red error of color – Unique
• 1858, 180c. green, in mixed franking with 1860 thick figures 60 c. brown lilac – Unique on cover

  Former political entities

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

  Confederate States of America

• CSA #10 – Rarest Confederate stamp

  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)

• Inverted Swan