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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:

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)

* [[Penny Black]] (Great Britain)

* [[Two Penny Blue]] (Great Britain)

* [[Two Penny Blue]] (Great Britain)

* [[Treskilling Yellow]] (Sweden)

* [[Treskilling Yellow]] (Sweden)

* [[Bull’s Eye (postage stamp)|Bull’s Eye]] (Brazil)

* [[Bull’s Eye (postage stamp)|Bull’s Eye]] (Brazil)

* [[British Guiana 1c magenta]]

* [[British Guiana 1c magenta]]

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:

• Ceres – France’s first stamp

• 70r Red Army Soldier error (1922) – 70-ruble perforated 12.5 or imperforate orange red error; position 72 in part of the issue; 4 imperforate specimens known

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

• Dull Rose – A 4 pence denomination issued on 23 April 1859, considered the most valuable stamp of Ceylon