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United States: 1847 Unique June 22, 2019: Anonymous Anonymous H.R. Harmer, New York [7] $1,274,000 $900,000 B Grill: United States: 1867-8 4 known October 28, 2008: The Perry Hansen Collection of U.S. Stamps and Covers Anonymous Robert A. Siegel, New York [31] $1,269,000 $970,000 Red Revenue: Qing China: 1897 32 known 2013: Anonymous Anonymous
The National Philatelic Collection is a collection of nearly six million postage stamps, revenue stamps, and related items, owned by the United States Government and managed by the Smithsonian Institution. It is housed within the National Postal Museum and a portion of the collection is on display in the museum's National Stamp Salon. The ...
1.22 United States. 1.23 Uruguay. ... Scinde Dawk – First stamps in Asia; ... considered the most valuable stamp of Ceylon; Kingdom of Hawaii
1856 British Guiana One-Cent Magenta. $9.48 million. Known to philatelists as the "Mona Lisa of stamps," the British Guiana One-Cent Magenta is the world's most famous rare stamp.
The Benjamin Franklin Z Grill, or simply "Z-Grill", is a 1-cent postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in February 1868 depicting Benjamin Franklin.While stamps of this design were the common 1-cent stamps of the 1860s, the Z-Grill is distinguished by having the so-called "Z" variety of a grill pressed into the stamp, creating tiny indentations in the paper.
Postal service in the United States began with the delivery of stampless letters whose cost was borne by the receiving person, later encompassed pre-paid letters carried by private mail carriers and provisional post offices, and culminated in a system of universal prepayment that required all letters to bear nationally issued adhesive postage stamps.