Should you be looking around for a new hobby then consider stamp collecting. You'll not be on your own. You will discover literally tens of millions of postage stamp collectors throughout the world. Postage stamp collectors range in items they collect and buy. Numerous collectors will focus their attentions on gathering postage stamps which portray plants as an example. For many people the thrill of collecting certainly will concentrate on shopping for the rare stamp. But what actually is a rare stamp and are there many on the market? The rare stamp often has an intriguing historical past. Here we check out a few examples and why that they have grown to be so collectable.

A couple of things you can pretty much guarantee about a rare stamp can be that it will be most likely be old and secondly it'll have some intriguing heritage to it. What could possibly be better to introduce an example of a rare stamp which became well-known due to a colour error back in the mid 1800s. The Treskilling Yellow is a rare stamp from Sweden that presently holds the record regarding the highest amount of cash paid for a single postage stamp at auction. More than two million dollars to be exact!. The Treskilling Yellow was made well-known as it was printed off by error in a different colour to the standard blue green denomination coloration. What makes this a prime example of a rare stamp is the fact that they've only found 1 remaining Treskilling Yellow. This is a rare stamp that stamp collectors will almost certainly never get to view in detail in their very own collections.

The Perot Provisional Stamp is another super example of rare stamp which is well known amongst stamp collectors. This rare stamp series is unique in that every postage stamp has handwriting on it. Back in the mid 1800s on the island of Bermuda postmaster William Bennet Perot in reality wrote in the value of each stamp and also signed each one. The Perot Provisional is genuinely a high value and rare stamp. Want one for your collection? Sadly the eleven surviving postage stamps are securely held within the stamp collections of royal households throughout Europe.

Next up is the amazing story of the Inverted Jenny rare stamp from the United States. A printing error is once again responsible for making the Inverted Jenny the hugely adored rare stamp that it is nowadays. The name of this rare stamp comes from the sort of aircraft shown in the middle segment of every stamp which is shown upside down (the printing error). A mistake in the printing plates triggered a volume of these stamps to get the upside down aircraft. And now the Inverted Jenny rare stamp is one of the worlds most collectable demanding enormous sums of cash.