First stamps or sets of stamps of specific countries

Surely a good idea. There are lots of stamps or sets of stamps that were issued as #1 in the country and are very valuable nowadays.

  • Têtê-Bêche

    Tête-bêche is a joined pair of stamps in which one item is upside down in realtion to the other. These may be produced accidentaly or intentionally. These pairs may be horizontal or vertical. Tête-bêche is a French word meaning „head to tail“.

    A historic cover bearing a rare colonial stamp

  • Printing or other errors

    Stamp is a printed piece of paper. Errors may occur during the printing proces. These errors are usually very rare and therefore the stamps containing these errors are valuable.

    The legendary "Inverted Jenny" printing error

  • Colonial stamps and issues for foreigner Post offices including watermark and perforation faults, high denominations,…

    High denominations of colonial stamps, postage stamps issued by foreign post offices, watermark errors etc. are usually very valuable. there are not many of them and it makes them scarce.

    Oil Rivers – British Protectorate colonial stamps

  • Stamps issued or overprinted by occupation authorities

    These stamps were usually not in use for a long time and therefore not many of them survived.

    A G.R.I. overprint on a German colonial stamp

  • Stamps with a "story" and good provenance

    Story and provenance sells. A stamp which used to be in the collection of Barone de Rotschild will always be more valuable than the same item without this provenance.

    A historic cover documenting its postal journey

  • All Mauritius Post Paid issues 1848-1859

    This is a classics which must be in every collections!

    A cover bearing the Mauritius Post Office One Penny stamp

  • Trial prints and plate flaws – the whole world until 1950

    Not many of them survived and that is the reason why they grow in price from the very beginning.

    A trial print compared with the final stamp

  • Unissued stamps

    Unissued means that they were printed but the issuance had been stopped shortly before the distribution was planned. Again, not many survived, as the most of them were officialy destroyed.

    A historic Czechoslovakia 1918–1938 souvenir sheet

  • Stamps of countries with the long stamp collecting tradition

    If there is a tradition, it is likely to carry on :-)

    Classic stamps of countries with a long collecting tradition

  • Propaganda Cards from WWI and WWII

    Interesting items with historical background. Surely worth to collect and invest in. The prices are quite stable and appreciate in time step by step.

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