The stamp was modeled after the erstwhile British stamps, featuring the profile of Queen Victoria. The stamps were of two denominations one penny with the colour of orange-red and two pence of dark blue. These stamps were issued in Mauritius in September 1847, when it was a British colony. A single Inverted Jenny stamp was sold for $977,500 at an auction in 2007. Even though at least three more sheets had been printed with the error, they all were found and destroyed. It is believed that only 100 stamps with the error exist now. It features the image of the Curtiss JN-4 airplane upside-down. Also, it is a printing error that makes this one of the rarest postage stamps in the world. Inverted JennyĪlso known as Upside Down Jenny, The Inverted Jenny is a United States postage stamp with a face value of 24 cents. One stamp is estimated to be worth about $5, 00,000. It is believed that only a little more than 100 stamps of this kind exist now. In 1857, the unsold stamps were withdrawn and destroyed. Even though more than fifty-thousand copies were printed, a small number of the stamps were sold. The stamp depicts the profile of Queen Victoria, based on the Queen’s portrait drawn by Alfred Edward Chalon. Canada 12-pence BlackĪlso known as the Black Empress of Canada, this stamp was issued in 1851 and is one of the rarest now. The Most Expensive Photographs Ever Sold.ġ0 Disturbing Photographs Telling Tales of Disaster. The only known used stamp is in the Royal Philatelic Collection. A few stamps exist though their actual number is not known. In total, 24 million stamps were printed but following the unexpected demise of the king in May that year, almost all of the stamps were destroyed. The new stamp, with face value of two pence, also featured the king. It was issued in 1910 to replacement the existing two-colour two-pence stamp bearing the profile of King Edward VII. The Edward VII Tyrian Plum is one of the rarest postage stamps from Britain. The 2-cent version is the rarest among the three, with only 15 of them existing. & U.S / Postage’ was printed on the 13-cent stamps. The phrase ‘Hawaiian / Postage’ were inscribed on 2 and 5-cent stamps while ‘H.I. The design consisted of the numeral of denomination in the center and the denomination in words at the bottom. All of the stamps were made on blue paper of cheap quality. They went on to be known as ‘Missionaries’ because most of them were discovered on the correspondence between Missionaries working in Hawaii. The stamps were in three denominations 2 cents, 5 cents and 13 cents. Issued by the then Kingdom of Hawaii in 1851, these are amongst the rarest postage stamps in the world. They are among the rarest postage stamps now. An editor from SinoMaps Press noticed the error by afternoon of the issue date and the stamps were immediately recalled, though a few went to the collectors. However, the map of Taiwan, which was controlled by China, was not red, but white. Designed by Wang Weisheng, it featured the map of China in red colour and the picture of a worker, a farmer and a soldier holding the copies of ‘Selected Works of Chairman Mao’ (Little Red Book). The stamp was conceived to represent the expansion of Communism in China. With a face value of 8 fen, it was noted for its printing error. This Chinese stamp was issued in 1968, during the Cultural Revolution. A number of unused sheets of these stamps are kept at British Postal Museum.
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The stamps of this series are very hard to find, and are estimated to be worthy of around $3000. First issued in 1840, it was withdrawn in a year because the cancellation mark was difficult to spot in the black background. The stamp gets its name from both the colour and value of it.
It features the profile of the British Queen Victoria. The person who was behind the idea, Rowland Hill, is known as the ‘father of postal stamps’. The Penny Black was the first adhesive postage stamp in the world, introduced by Britain.
A Basel Dove stamp is now worth around $20,000. Around 42,000 stamps were printed in the series until it was withdrawn in 1854. It sported the colours black, crimson and blue. The Basel Dove, depicting a white dove carrying a letter in its beak, was designed by architect Melchior Berri. Basel was one of the only three Swiss cantons to print postal stamps. It was the first tricolor stamp in the world and had a face value of 2.5 rappen. The Basel Dove is a stamp issued by the canton of Basel in Switzerland, on 1 July 1845.
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