What's the rarest stamp in your collection?

I have more "rare" postmarks than rare stamps, but I do have some 'SPECIMEN' errors that are highly sought after.These errors come from three different special printings. There where two errors made during the first printing in 1875, the typesetter reversed letter positions when setting up the typeset plate to Overprint the word SPECIMEN on the Official stamps of the U. S. Departments and placed an E before the P. The second error was made when the printers allowed the freshly printed sheet of overprinted stamps to contact the plate again causing a double overprint.



The Second Printing in 1879 was of only the 1 cent stamp of four Departments, Agriculture, Executive, Justice, and State, all on ribbed paper. This printing also has two errors created during the printing. This time the typesetter used a lower case i instead of the upper case I to match the rest of the letters. This happened in two positions on the sheet, positions 7 and 26. The two positions can be identified. During the printing, a small piece of the C broke away at position 28, leaving a broken C.



The Third Special Printing in 1881 was just two different stamps, the 1 cent Executive and the 1 cent Navy, 5000 each. and during printing the upper case I broke at position 66 leaving a new error, the Broken I.

 

Definitely those stamps with error overprints are rare. So nice.

 

Thank you. I'm rather proud of them, but the stamp that started me on collecting those errors was this next stamp, and actually the first "Specimen" stamp I had ever seen. I bought it un seen, through a monthly mail bid dealer in Florida, and paid a whole $2.50 for it. I had the stamp for about 6 months before I discovered what I had.

Even though this stamp has a very ugly thin, it is decidedly rare. With only 7430 of the 2 cent Executive "Specimen" sold, at one time there were 74 of this "foreign entry" in existence 139 years ago. This is called a foreign entry because in this position on the sheet of 100, the spirographer used the 6 cent Agriculture transfer roll to enter an impression in position 40, and then noticed that he had used the wrong roll. The position was hammered out and the position re entered with the proper transfer roll. It exists in all forms of the 2 cent Executive. I know of 3 Specimen copies of position 40 and this one.

 

Thank you. Every time I show that stamp, I think how much I'd like to have it that thin filled. I do think that it is amazing that when the thin was created that it didn't disturb the final layer of paper that the stamp impression is on.

 

On this Topic I would like to add a few interesting items to some on this site.

A superb complete 10 Shilling booklet with 20 values of the 1980 50c Ratel,

not listed in most catalogues and believed very few booklets were ever made of this 10 Sh. issue.

One reliable scource stated that these were very RRRare. 10 to 15 booklets are known to exist.

 

This item is mostly found in used condition but rarely MNH.



This 10t on12t overprinted Pangolin value issued 1 August 1994 from the 1992 Animal Defintive set is mostly found used.

Superbly mint never hinged.

A seldom found hardly offered issue from a dismantled sheet (25 per sheet) ( as most were used in Booklets). Printed by Government Printer in Pretoria, South Africa.

Was overprinted due to non usage of the original 12t value and in addition had a short lifespan due to postal rate changes.

The Ground pangolin (Manis temminckii), also known as Temminck's Pangolin or the Cape Pangolin, is one of four species of pangolin which can be found in Africa and the only one in southern and eastern Africa.

Although it is present over quite a large area, it is rare throughout it and notoriously difficult to spot. Its scarcity is partly because it is hunted by humans for its scales, which are used in love charms, and partly because it is often burnt in bush fires. It is designated as an endangered species by the USA Fish and Wild life Service.

 

Hi, my rarest stamp is a 5000 "lei" stamp that worth around 300 dollars here in my country. I know is not that much for me is a high value. I don't intend to sell it, I want to keep it until I will be an old man and it probably will cost more!

 

Is this a postage stamp ? Does not look like one.

 

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Regards, James.

 

I have to admit: I don´t get !
It is no postage stamp,right ?
Do you know,when it was made and for what reason ?
Perhaps "pistol" could give some explanations ?