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Famous Stamps
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Philatelic Terms
100
This letter was issued by Scott Catalog for all airmail stamps.
What is the letter “C”?
100
Revenue from these stamps helps to purchase wildlife habitat. This was the first dedicated source of funding for wetlands conservation.
What are federal duck stamps?
100
This one-cent on bright paper, a British commonwealth stamp; is the only stamp missing from the collection of Queen Elizabeth II.
What is the British Guiana one-cent magenta?
100
This well known stamp issued from Great Britain is the world’s first postage stamp.
What is the Penny Black?
100
The face value of a stamp, as printed on the stamp in either numerals or lettering.
What is denomination?
200
This error, which is one of the most well known invert errors; illustrates a Curtiss JN-4 airplane.
What is the Inverted Jenny?
200
These labels were first introduced to the United States by Emily Bissell in 1907, which raise funds and awareness for lung diseases such as tuberculosis.
What are Christmas seals?
200
This stamp is simply a color error, nonetheless a famous Sweden stamp.
What is the Treskilling Yellow?
200
This series of stamps were the first U.S. commemorative stamps, commemorating the 400th anniversary of the new world.
What are the Columbian Exposition series?
200
Any printing on the face of a stamp that was not part of the original design.
What is overprint?
300
In 1930, a new issue of airmail stamps was announced. These three stamps were to be used exclusively on mail carried on European-Pan American flights.
What are the Graf Zeppelins?
300
After the First Issue documentary revenue stamps were released in 1862, officials found proof the stamps were being cleaned and re-used. To combat the fraud, a Second Issue was ordered with new designs and ink colors. The stamps were printed on a patented “chameleon” paper containing this.
What are silk fibers?
300
This stamp printed in black, crimson and blue, became the world’s first multi-colored stamp and is considered one of the most beautiful stamps ever produced.
What is the Basel Dove?
300
These three letters are known to philatelists for the first issue of a stamp.
What is “FDC” (First Day Cover)?
300
First introduced in the late 1960’s, this five-digit number facilitates the sorting of mail.
What is the ZIP code?
400
This country issued the world’s first official airmail stamp, actually an overprint of a special delivery stamp in 1917.
What is Italy?
400
The $200 (R132) and $500 (R133) Second Issue documentary revenue stamps were printed with three colors, elaborate designs and ornate scrollwork which were often referred as these.
What are the “Persian Rugs”?
400
This error stamp from India is prized by collectors. Although the “head” appears to be upside down, it is actually the frame that is inverted.
What is the inverted head 4 annas?
400
This Canadian map stamp of 1898, with some debate; is considered to be the first of this.
What is the first Christmas stamp?
400
Sheet stamps created by adding perforations to leftover sheets or pieces of sheets intended for coil stamps.
What is coil waste?
500
This stamp, a semi-official airmail postage stamp produced decades before the first mail planes took off; was used to prepay postage for a balloon flight between the towns of Nashville and Gallatin, Tennessee on June 18, 1877.
What is the Buffalo Balloon stamp?
500
These stamps are pre-fixed with the letter “J” by the Scott Catalog.
What are postage due stamps?
500
These stamps were the first postage stamps used in Hawaii.
What are the Hawaiian Missionaries?
500
These stamps issued in 1853 from the Cape of Good Hope dared the traditional shape of stamps.
What are the first triangle stamps?
500
These postage stamps are valid only for the use of government agencies.
What are official stamps?