For more information please see our Cookie Policy. The worlds most valuable rare stamps This article is updated on 17 August World's most valuable stamps. According to philatelic experts, less than 30 individual copies of Post Office Mauritius have survived until today.
This was a famous 'Bordeaux' cover of Mauritius that contains both a Mauritius one penny orange-red and a two pence deep blue. A used example of Mauritius 2d deep blue stamp on soft greyish wove paper, neatly canceled at lower left corner, was offered at Spink auction in June This is the highest price ever paid for a single philatelic item. In the end, we should claim that both deep blue and red-orange Mauritius stamps are extremely rare and worth a fortune.
Most valuable U. Another popular stamp associated with the Civil War issue is devoted to Benjamin Franklin, a famous political theorist, diplomat, author, scientist, and the president of Pennsylvania. The 1c Benjamin Franklin stamp issued in features a rare Z-grill with horizontal ridges, just like two other designs from the series depicting Abraham Lincoln and George Washington. At present, there are only two existing samples that are very high priced.
It is the only Z-grill in private hands, and the only other copy is kept in the New York Public Library. Like the Declaration of Independence, the Landing of Columbus is a copy of a famous painting by John Vanderlyn that depicts the historical arrival of the Spanish expedition to the shores of the New World.
Columbus and his crew reached the previously unknown land in and thus put America on the map for the entire Europe. If not for that, the U. Designed in blue and brown, 15c Landing of Columbus stamp features an unusual double-printed vignette, with both normal and inverted printing applied. This interesting item has a G grill common for the pictorial issue and is available with double or split grill. Over a century ago, people could buy it for just 15 cents.
The copy of the stamp with the inverted center, in an unused, very fine condition, considered as the only specimen with original gum, was auctioned by Robert A Siegel in October The Shield, Eagle and Flags stamp belongs to the pictorial issue that included ten items worth between 1 and 90 cents.
The series was the first to feature something other than national leader portraits. It also marked the first use of bicolor printing. Spelled out in red letters, the denomination number flows over into the blue-framed flags through the red shield.
Due to the oddly placed denomination and the confusing arrangement of colors, the stamp was often criticized as an example of a bad design. The new technique required double-pressing: to print the center design also known as vignette and to print the frame. Negligence in merging the two processes led to the appearance of rare inverts. The cent worth Shield and Flag piece with inverted flags is considered to be the rarest of the error stamp.
Incredibly popular nowadays, the pictorial series was ignored by the 19th-century public and soon withdrawn from production. Since the stamps were only in use for a year, they are almost impossible to find.
The Shield and Flag design features the G grill and is available in several variations, including split grill, double grill, and gum only. The first Hawaiian stamps appeared in These designs are now referred to as the "Hawaiian Missionaries" because they were frequently used by American missionaries on the islands to send letters back to the continental United States. The new stamps were released in Honolulu in three denominations 2-cent, 5-cent, and cent.
Because the first "Hawaiian Missionaries" were crudely engraved and printed on thin and poor quality paper, very few of these items have survived and are considered to be extreme rarities.
The lowest denomination, the two-cent version, is the most interesting of the set, with only about 16 copies known to exist today. The material has been prepared by Alex Barinoff. We'll reply to your e-mail within two working days. Before you contact take a look at the most common questions:. Log in. Check your email for instructions to reset the password. For more information please see our Cookie Policy Ok. The year was significant for stamp collectors as it was the first year in which the public could purchase stamps from the government.
When the U. Its primary value is because of the President, scarcity, and the B grill design. While there were around 1, stamps of this kind, only four are known to exist today. The rarest U. The Inverted Jenny, which was issued in , had a face value of just 24 cents. The high value of the stamp is determined by the mistake in printing the airplane upside down. The clerk in Washington DC who sold over of these stamps had never seen a plane and sold these stamps without seeing the error.
With its recent auction in , the Inverted Jenny is one of the most valuable stamps worldwide. While the stamps were printed under President Ulysses S. Grant , their issue was conceived in , during the fraught days after Andrew Johnson had been impeached, but still held on to power. Highly controversial and discontinued after one year, these were the first U. The pictorials are also the first example of a printing error by the Post Office Department.
To print in more than one color, each color had to be printed separately; the careless placing of several sheets upside down in the press resulted in the first American invert errors. It was the first time a transatlantic telephone line was used to purchase a lot at an auction. Collectors love these stamps for both the rarity of their survival, as well as their fanciful numerals. In that film, where a Hawaiian Missionary stamp plays a key part in the intrigue, its value is 3 cents, but there was no such thing as a 3-cent Missionary, only 2-cent, 5-cent and cent.
One Express rider, traveling east through Nevada in , disappeared. Transportation was the key theme of the six commemorative stamps—featuring the bridge at Niagara Falls and a steam engine, among others—issued in to commemorate the Pan American Exhibition held in Buffalo, NY.
Because these stamps were printed in two colors, the opportunity was ripe for error, and pictorials on the sheets of the 1, 2 and 4-cent denominations were inverted. McKinley was shot twice at close range by anarchist Leon Czolgosz as he greeted admirers at the fair.
Between and , the Post Office released a series of Americana stamps, four of which depicted light sources. In , nine CIA agents who noticed the error, purchased the sheet with the 95 remaining stamps at the post office in Mclean, Virginia the post office had unknowingly sold the other five to be used as everyday postage.
Each of the agents kept one stamp for themselves. A scandal soon followed, and the agency demanded that the agents return the stamps or face termination they had been purchased with taxpayer money, after all. This British stamp is extremely rare because nearly all of the 19 sheets printed were immediately destroyed and the stamps were recalled the same day they were issued. Of course, some stamps survived. While 21 billion Penny Reds were issued by Great Britain between and , a few of them are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Specifically, those produced from plate 77, which resulted in a perforation error that rendered the stamp sheets useless. All except for one sheet, which evaded destruction. The One Dollar Small version was quickly canceled as the text was too small, and there are only 32 of these stamps known to exist. The Benjamin Franklin Z Grill is a 1-cent stamp from created with a briefly used grill that left tiny Z-shaped indentations.
The price of this stamp is a bit difficult to pin down. And didn't have to wait long to find out just how much it's worth now. The Blue Boy went up for sale at a public auction in June
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