What's Your Favorite Stamp

Let's try this knowing that few of us will probably have just one favorite and some will confess, "they're all my favorites". Post your all time favorite or current favorite here. If you feel so inclined add a few lines about why it makes the top of your list. I'll go first. It's the beacon airmail from 1928. It came to me in a collection my dad had started and by the time I got it it was already almost 50 years old. Not only was it a thrill to hold that stamp, but it was wondrous to think it had actually been used to send something by mail in an actual airplane. No person I knew had flown, but the fact that this stamp had struck me. The pictures of the beacon and circling plane and the odd-shaped cancel with the number 4 on it stimulated my imagination. I still have it.

My favorite is the 1963 US Christmas stamp. I was 5 years old and stamps were just pretty stickers that I could lick and stick on things. At some point, after this stamp was issued, I learned that postage stamps were for mailing letters. This is the first stamp that I knew was a stamp.

What a great question for my 100th post.

Western Cattle in Storm



I am also partial to the entire Pan-American Exposition series

No personal story to it - I just love the design, detailing and colours.

Don

Here is my favorite.

I'm going with the U.S. signing of the Declaration of Independence in the Pictorial series. Scott #120

Don, love the colors. Willwood, I agree on the whole Pan-American Expo set - maybe my favorite set.

I've always loved the Australian arms set.

I like this one. Fujeira 1972, June 3.

French Kings and Fashion set.

New South Wales, Scott # B2.

B1-B2 Nice.

The Jenny of course but this one I own.

jogil, That's a beautiful 10-Cent Canada stamp! The ink is so thick, it looks 3D!

U.S. Scott #63 - I love how the designer used elegantly-curved lines to form an approximation of a rectangle: