Postage stamps are thoroughly used in all parts of the United States. Everyday, a huge number of stamps are printed in the US alone. But for some reasons the US government prevented many of stamp manufacturers to continue producing postage stamps. This is the reason why manufactured stamps are becoming rare.

The first postage stamp issued in the world was in 1840. The stamp was introduced by the British itself and was called “One Penny Black”. Those postage stamps were integrated or attached and had to be cut with scissors. Printed on it was the picture of England's Queen Victoria. The unused samples of these stamps are very much rare to find. And if you find one, it is very much expensive to acquire. Although having some of it in their collections means everything to many of stamps enthusiasts.

Other stamp collectors that observe the rise in value of rare postage stamps engaged in Philatelic investments. Stamps prove to be the most profitable among other collectibles. Rare postage stamps are investments and also good alternative to art collecting, because they sell fast at a high price and easier to store.

The sale of rare and valuable postage stamps from around the world had reached over 350,000 Francs and attracted a lot of interested and very rich stamp collectors. This recent sale has an impact to the minds of many people around the world to the interesting part of stamp collecting known as philately.

There are eleven most extremely strange and very rare postage stamps in the world today.They are :
 
1.)  The Two Penny Blue Stamps (1840) - these stamps lacked the country's name. One of the earliest stamps made in Britain.
 
2.)  The 'Mauritius Post Office Error' Stamps (1847) - these stamps had the words "Post Office" instead of "Post Paid."
 
3.)  Hawaii Missionary Stamps (1851) - these are very expensive stamps, an unused set of eight could cost up to $100,000.

4.)  British Guiana 1-cent Magenta Stamps (1856) - alleged to be the world's rarest and most valuable stamps. These stamps were sold at an auction in 1970 for $280,000.
 
5.)  The New Brunswick "Connell's Folly" (1859) - Postmaster General Charles Connell used his own portrait on the 5 cent stamp, the value most commonly used in the colony.
 
6.)  The Ecuador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and El Salvador "Seebeck Reprints" (1889-1899) - Nicholas F. Seebeck, a representative of the Hamilton Banknote Company in New York, contracted to print stamps for these nations at no charge, provided all unsold stamps were invalidated and returned to him. He sold these and other postage stamps reprinted from the original plates to collectors at a fraction of their face value.
 
7.)  The China "Special Delivery Issue (1913-1914) - It's the world's largest stamp, printed in strips with five different designs.

8.)  The U.S. "Inverted Airmail" (1918) - Today each postage stamp costs at about $42,500.

9.)  The Germany "Inflation Issue" (1923) - Due to rampant inflation, Germany had to issue stamps at very high values. The stamp valued at 50 million marks represents one of the highest denominations ever to appear on a postage stamps. It became one of rare and valuable postage stamps from gremany.

10.)  The U.S. "Dag Hammarskjold Error," (1962) - Two collectors, one in New Jersey and one in Ohio, each bought a sheet of this commemorative, which had the yellow background inverted. On discovering the existence of the error, the Post Office Dept. reissued the stamp with the error and eliminated the premium value of the original sheets.

11.)  The U.S. "Farley's Follies" (1935) - Postmaster General James A. Farley favored selected friends and VIPs, especially President Franklin D. Roosevelt, by giving them ungummed and unperforated sheets of certain commemorative issues. After strong and continued protests from American stamp collectors, the government was forced to reissue the postage stamps in an ungummed and unperforated form and make them available to the general public.

The value of the rarest postage stamps nowadays are becoming higher and higher as the demands from stamp collectors not just from the United states but from around the world are increasing rapidly.