Ten Most Valuable Postage Stamps. Postage stamps commemorate the people and events that shape the United States. It gets the moniker "Black Jack" from its background and use and filling or outlining some of the letters in black.
Many Elvis stamps issued in limited editions are extremely valuable, but not the US stamp. In this collection of the most valuable American stamps, we highlight not only the history portrayed but some of the other features that make them valuable. A Postage stamp began as a piece of paper, a receipt denoting a specific value, which was a token of prepayment for postal service equivalent to its face value.
Stamp collecting was once a hugely common popular hobby but its popularity has declined over the years as a rise in modern technology has taken over the use of letters.
Most postage stamps that have been used are worth only pennies.
Post Office Mauritius is an error postal stamp issued in Mauritius. Using stamps to mail a letter or package can be tricky, but it doesn't have to be a cause for frustration. This is a list of postage stamps that are especially notable in some way, often due to antiquity or a postage stamp error.