This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way.

The best-known stamps:

By country:

Australia

Austria

  • Red Mercury

Bermuda

  • Perot provisional

Brazil

  • Bull's Eye

British Guiana

Canada

  • Canada 12d black
  • Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper - rarest Canadian stamp
  • St. Lawrence Seaway invert

Cape of Good Hope

  • Cape 4d black Triangle
  • Cape 4d red error of color

Falkland Islands

  • Falkland Islands HMS Glasgow error - wrong ship on a modern stamp

Finland

  • Finland 20k black stamped envelope - most valuable postal stationery

German East Africa

  • German East Africa 1 rupee used at Tabora

Germany

  • Baden 9kr blue-green error of color
  • Saxony 3pf red sheet
  • Saxony 1/2g on light blue paper error
  • Vineta provisional

Gibraltar

  • Gibraltar 10c missing-value error

Hawaii

  • Hawaiian Missionaries - first stamps of Hawaii

Honduras

  • Black Honduras

India

  • Scinde Dawk - first stamps of India
  • India Queen Victoria invert

Italy

  • Tuscany 3-lira ocher
  • Italy General Balbo triptych

Jamaica

  • Jamaica 1sh inverted-frame error

Japan

  • Sutherland local boos
  • Japan 500m Dragon invert

Macedonia

Sweden

Switzerland

  • Basel Dove

Uganda

  • Uganda Cowries - first stamps of Uganda, produced on typewriter

United Kingdom (Great Britain)

United States

  • Inverted Jenny - upside-down airplane
  • St. Louis Bear
  • New York Postmaster's Provisional
  • United States 1c Z grill - rarest US stamp