Did you know that the collecting of postage stamps has been one of the world’s most popular hobbies since the late nineteenth century and the UK is the only country that does not display its name on its postage stamps? You definitely will be surprised, finding our that in 2013, Belgium issued stamps that smelt and tasted of chocolate.
Find out more incredible facts about the world famous postage stamps in our program World Stamps.

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1. Mauritius “Post Office” stamps
2. Inverted Jenny
3. The Benjamin Franklin Z Grill
4. Most Expensive Postage Stamps
5. Bull’s Eye and Basel Dove stamps
6. Bluenose
7. Ceres series
8. St. Louis Bears stamp
9. The Whole Country is Red and The Red Revenues
10. Postage stamps of Jamaica
11. Half penny Yellow
12. British post offices in China
13. Declaration of Independence
14. 250 years of historical victory in Poltava
15. Germany stamps
16. Queen Astrid Belgium stamps
17. Yacht issue
18. George V stamps
19. “Be a hero!”
20. Baden 9 Kreuzer error
21. Canada 2c Large Queen on laid paper
22. Inverted head 4 Annas
23. Charles Connell
24. Penny Black
25. Treskilling Yellow
26. New Buildings In Moscow
27. 1980 Summer Olympics Stamps
28. Portugal: World’s First Cork Stamp
29. Levanevsky with overprint
30. Trinidad stamps
31. Tom of Finland stamps
32. Gscheidle stamp
33. Missing Virgin
34. Wood and Wood Paper Stamps part 1
35. Wood and Wood Paper Stamps part 2
36. Chalon head stamps
37. Gold Standard issue
38. Naked Maja
39. Indian 10 Rupee Mahatma Gandhi
40. U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps
41. Dag Hammarskjöld invert
42. Trans-Mississippi Issue
43. Star Wars Stamps Issue
44. Hermes – Greek stamps
45. Atoms For Peace stamp
46. Pan-American invert
47. Western Cattle in Storm
48. John F. Kennedy Stamps
49. Postal Union Congress £1 stamp
50. U.S. space exploration history on U.S. stamps 2