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This is a list of the highest known prices paid for philatelic items, including stamps and covers. The current record price for a single stamp is US$9,480,000 paid for the British Guiana 1c magenta. [1] [2] This list is ordered by consumer price index inflation-adjusted value (in bold) in millions of United States dollars in 2023.
Catabooks Publishing - Thematic Catalogs / Gandhi Stamp Catalog (The First India theme based Stamp Caatalogs) Campbell Paterson (New Zealand) Chan Stamp Catalogue of China [3] Comprehensive Colour Catalogue of Australian Stamps; Farahbakhash Catalogue Of 2010: The Stamps Of Iran – Qajar, Pahlavi, Islamic Republic Of Iran (Iran) Isfila (Turkey)
A block of four £2 "Roo" stamps showing the printer's imprint in the selvedge 1d King George V, used at Sydney in 1916. The six self-governing Australian colonies that formed the Commonwealth of Australia on 1 January 1901 had operated their own postal service and issued their own stamps – see articles on the systems on New South Wales (first stamps issued 1850), Victoria (1850), Tasmania ...
Although it was placed under Australian control in 1958, the island remained postally and philatelically independent until 1993 when Australia Post became the island's postal operator. The island issued its own postage stamps from 1958. Those issued by Australia Post since 1993 are also valid in Australia, as are Australian stamps in Christmas ...
The trees have not previously been represented on Australian stamps. The issue is a companion to the 2005 Australian Trees stamp issue. Cocos (Keeling) Islands - Birds of Cocos: 24 March 2015 Owen Bell and John White The Cocos (Keeling) Islands comprises 27 islands in two atoll groups, with a total land area of about 14 square kilometres.
The Australian Army's postal service initially used stamps of Papua at first, and subsequently returned to using stamps of Australia. [5] The suppression of civil postal service rendered the reprints of 1932 stamps useless, including a 1/6d. airmail stamp issued in January 1941 for a letter to the United Kingdom.
Between 1963 and 1979 with the Australian Post Office and since 1 January 1994 with Australia Post, the Cocos Islands' and Australia's stamps are valid in both these territories. According to Stanley Gibbons catalogue , [ 1 ] the Australian Post Office issued 31 stamps between 1963 and 1979, compared to 264 by the local authority between 1979 ...
About 120 are specialized stamps from the US Specialized Catalogue. About 1180 are used stamp images that Scott is replacing with mint images in the general world catalogues or are poorly centered stamps that they are replacing with F to VF centered stamps. Only a handful of black and white images are left in the world catalogues.