1918 may 10, Jiangsu Changzhou park (now Changzhou people's park) held the first China stamp exhibition.
Stamp exhibition is a stamp exhibition with stamps as its basic content, referred to as stamp exhibition for short. Collecting stamps is a kind of interest, knowledge and investment. By collecting and studying all kinds of stamp products, philatelists can not only learn about world history, geography, flowers, plants, fish and insects, people and other related knowledge, but also cultivate a quiet interest and self-cultivation patience.
Stamp products include not only stamps, but also postal articles such as seals, films, stamps and stamps issued and used by postal agencies. There are many kinds of stamp products, including first day covers, airmail envelopes with international postage, souvenir covers, original cards, postal postcards, postage envelopes, souvenir sheets, promissory notes, sheetlets, commemorative postmarks and stamps.
Stamps are known as "national business cards". When issuing stamps, every country will choose the best, most beautiful, most representative or memorable things in its own country, and display them on the stamps after careful design. It covers politics, economy, culture, military and other aspects, and all walks of life have everything, making the small stamp between squares an all-encompassing museum and a small encyclopedia with rich knowledge.
Rank of the most expensive stamps in the world:
1, Guyana 1 cent magenta stamp
1856, the stamps ordered by Guyana from Britain failed to arrive on time. In case of emergency, stamps are temporarily printed locally. In order to prevent forgery, the post office requires that all letters with this stamp must be signed by the post office clerk, so the magenta stamp was born. Guyana is worthy of the title of "hometown of rare postal services".
In 20 14, at an auction in Sotheby's, new york, "One Minute Magenta" was sold for 9.5 million US dollars (about 59.09 million yuan), setting a new world record.
2. British "black penny" stamps
This "black penny" stamp is the first stamp in the world, which was born in Britain in 1840. Because the face value of stamps is easy to measure and printed in black ink, they are called black penny stamps. So far, it has been found that three black penny tickets were sold in Basgay, a city in the south of England, on May 2nd 1840, which was regarded as a treasure by stamp collectors and had a high price tag. At present, the transaction record of "black penny" stamps is 5 million US dollars, about 3 1.49 million yuan.
3. Swedish "Yellow 3 Schilling" Stamp
It is believed that there is only one "yellow three shillings" stamp left at present. The last auction of this stamp was at 1996, and the transaction price was 2.875 million Swiss francs (about 2.3 million US dollars).
4. The wrong version of the American stamp "Jenny is upside down"
Jenny upside down is the first airmail stamp issued by the United States in 19 18, with a face value of 24 cents. Due to a printing error, the plane pattern in the center of this stamp was printed upside down, which made it a precious wrong stamp. There are only about 100 stamps in the world, with a value as high as 3 million US dollars, or about RMB18.9 million yuan.
5. American Hawaiian "Missionary" Stamps
The "Missionary" stamp was issued on 185 1. The origin of the name "Missionary" is not that the stamps are printed with groups related to missionaries, but because most of the people who used this stamp at that time were missionaries in Hawaii, so they were called "Missionary" stamps.
It is made of very thin paper, which is extremely fragile and easy to be damaged when it comes out, so it is extremely rare and has become a good philatelist in the world. The latest transaction record of "Missionary" stamps is 6.5438+0.304 million yuan.