Postage Stamp
Stamp is a piece of adhesive paper, stick on the sampul surat with paper glue or, the most practical one-saliva. Stamps were similar like coins; it has a personality, various colour, different art work, and it filled with history.
According to
Inventors.about.com, 'bishop mark' was been used before stamps were created. Bishop mark was been created by Henry Bishop and first used in 1661 at London General Post Office until May 1840 where British Penny Black Stamp were been released. It was been engraved with Queen V for Victoria's head, and the V-head symbol was been applied on all British stamps for the next 60 years.
There are 18 rare stamps in the world which is:
- Penny Black Stamp- May 1840 from UK (the first modern postage stamp).
- Basel Dove-July 1845 from Switzerland, Canton of Basel.
- Post Office Mauritius-Sept 1847 from UK (approx. value: 1 million pound sterling...wow).
- Perot Provisional-1848 from Bermuda.
- Cottonreels-July 1850 from British Guiana.
- Hawaiian Missionaries-Oct 1851 from Hawaii.
- Scinde Dawk-July 1852 from Scindh, India.
- Inverted Head Four Annas-Oct 1854 from India.
- Inverted Swan-Jan 1855 from Western Aussie a.k.a Australia.
- Treskilling Yellow-1855 from Sweden (approx. value: 2.5 million Swiss francs...that's awesome!)
- Red Mercury-1856 from Austria.
- British Guiana 1 cent Magenta-1856 from British Guiana.
- Woodblock stamp-1861 from Cape of Good Hope.
- Benjamin Franklin Z Grill-1868 from USA (approx.value:2.97 million USD...this is crazy money!)
- Uganda cowries-1895 from Uganda.
- Inverted Jenny-May 1918 from USA.
- Bluenose-Jan1929 from Canada
- Gronchi Rosa-April 1961 from Italy.
According to
Ming website, top 10 famous stamps are
Penny Black,
Basel Dove,
Post Office Mauritius,
Treskilling Yellow,
Inverted Jenny,
Gronchi Rosa,
Z Grill,
1 cent Magenta,
Four Annas, and
Scinde Dawk. All I can say about these stamps are; rare stamps are the famous stamps.
