What Are The Largest And Smallest Stamps In Your Collection?

The largest stamp in my collection was issued by Costa Rica on September 3, 2003. It measures 15cm x 8 cm (120 cm2).

It was issued is a sheet contains more 10 regular size stamps, all tell about Cocori, Children's Story written by Joaquin Gutierrez and Illustrated by Hugo Diaz:

The smallest stamp in my collection issued by Vietnam in 1981. I put a definitive stamp of France for the comparison.

Here are my smallest. Shown with the small US Indian Head Penny stamp for comparison.

I always loved that tiny narcotic stamp. They were used on bottles of legal narcotics which used in prescriptions.

Kinderpost "Children's Playtime Postage" from a 1950s game.

Great minds think alike! I was thinking of posting this same query. Here is my submission with machin for scale.



The Turkey stamp may not seem that large but when I stumbled across it as a kid in a random lot, I was over the moon. It remains one of my favorite stamps.

Sadly, I had an even smaller "ephemera" stamp about the size of my thumbnail, but the roving black hole in my collection seems to have eaten it for now.

Kate

Happy to see more in this thread.

Really tiny East German United German Journalists stamp. I honestly don't know exactly what this stamp was used for, but it is pretty small.

Does this on fit ? A die-cut error on coil stamp # 3152 (24mm x 9mm) Probablly still legal since the country and value are vissible. The entire roll of 50 was badly cut.

Pollux, a wonderful find and thanks for sharing.

In that case, this misperf I have must be the smallest. The stamp is already small, now it got even smaller, while the opposite stamp got bigger.

Very short Brazilian stamp.


Thin East German stamp, with comparison, by popular demand.


The smallest triangular stamp I have seen.


Large meter stamp made by Frankopost.


Tall Indonesian stamp.


The famous green shield stamp.

Here goes my smallest stamp
June 1952, New York City enacted a 1-cent excise tax on top of the state levy.
The latest estimate is that 57 percent of all cigarettes consumed in New York are smuggled into the state.

A misperf gutter snipe created this tiny fraction of a stamp.