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A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp
Postage stamp

A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
 issued to honor or commemorate a place, event or person. Most postal service
Mail

Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages, are delivered to destinations around the world....
s of the world issue several of these each year, often holding first day of issue
First day of issue

The first day of issue is the day on which a postage stamp, postal card or stamped envelope is put on sale, within the country or territory of the Postal administration....
 ceremonies at locations connected with the subjects.






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A commemorative stamp is a postage stamp
Postage stamp

A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
 issued to honor or commemorate a place, event or person. Most postal service
Mail

Mail, or post, is a method for transmitting information and tangible objects, wherein written documents, typically enclosed in envelopes, and also small packages, are delivered to destinations around the world....
s of the world issue several of these each year, often holding first day of issue
First day of issue

The first day of issue is the day on which a postage stamp, postal card or stamped envelope is put on sale, within the country or territory of the Postal administration....
 ceremonies at locations connected with the subjects. Commemorative stamps are usually used alongside ordinary or regular-issue stamps of the time, although in some cases their use has been obligatory.

There are several candidates for the title of first commemorative. A 17-cent stamp issued in 1860 by New Brunswick
New Brunswick

New Brunswick is one of Canada's three Maritime provinces and is the only Constitution of Canada bilingual province in the federation. The provincial capital is Fredericton....
, showing the Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales

Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the Heir Apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom . The current Prince of Wales is Charles, Prince of Wales, the eldest son of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom....
 in anticipation of his visit is one possibility. The United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 15-cent black stamp of 1866 depicts Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. He successfully led the country through its greatest internal crisis, the American Civil War, preserving the Union and ending slavery....
, and was the first stamp issued after his assassination in 1865, but it was not officially declared as a memorial to him. The U.S. also issued a 5-cent stamp in 1882 showing the recently murdered President James A. Garfield. In addition, the United States issued stamped envelopes for the Centennial Exposition
Centennial Exposition

The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, the first official World's Fair in the United States, was held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the signing of the United States Declaration of Independence in Philadelphia....
 in 1876, although technically these are postal stationery
Postal stationery

A piece of postal stationery is a stationery item, such as an envelope, letter sheet, post card, lettercard, Aerogram or wrapper, with an amount of postage preprinted on it....
 and not stamps. The UK
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
's Jubilee Issue
Jubilee Issue

The postage stamps of the United Kingdom issued in 1887 are known as the "Jubilee" issue because they were issued during the year of the Golden Jubilee of the accession of Victoria of the United Kingdom to the throne in 1837....
 of 1887 may be thought of as commemorative of the 50 years' reign of Queen Victoria, although there are no special inscriptions on the stamps, and they were intended as regular stamps.

Stamp New South Wales 1888 1p
The first undoubtedly commemorative stamps were issued by New South Wales
New South Wales

New South Wales is Australia's oldest and most populous States and territories of Australia, located in the south-east of the country, north of Victoria and south of Queensland....
 in 1888 to mark its 100th anniversary; the six types all include the inscription "ONE HUNDRED YEARS". Commemoratives followed in 1891 for Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Hong Kong , officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located in Southern China in East Asia, bordering the province of Guangdong to the north and facing the South China Sea to the east, west and south....
 and Romania
Romania

Romania is a country located in Southeastern Europe Central Europe, North of the Balkan Peninsula, on the Lower Danube, within and outside the Carpathian Mountains, bordering on the Black Sea....
, then in 1892 and 1893 a half-dozen nations of America issued commemoratives for the 400th anniversary of the discovery by Christopher Columbus
Christopher Columbus

Christopher Columbus was a Republic of Genoa navigator, colonialist and explorer whose voyages across the Atlantic Ocean?funded by Queen Isabella of Spain?led to general European awareness of the America in the Western Hemisphere....
.

The appearance of commemoratives caused a backlash among some stamp collectors, who balked at the prospect of laying out ever-larger sums to acquire the stamps of the world, and they formed the Society for the Suppression of Speculative Stamps around 1894 to blacklist
Blacklist

A blacklist is a list or register of persons who, for one reason or another, are being denied a particular privilege, service, mobility, access or recognition....
 what they deemed to be excessive stamps. However, it had very little effect, and today the early commemoratives are prized by collectors.

Today, commemorative stamp collection remains one of the most popular collection hobbies in the world.

See also

  • Definitive stamp
    Definitive stamp

    A definitive postage stamp is a regular issue stamp that is part of a definitive issue or definitive series consisting of a range of denominations sufficient to cover all postal rates usefully....
  • List of Great Britain commemorative stamps
    List of Great Britain commemorative stamps

    This list deals with commemorative stamps of United Kingdom....
  • List of philatelic bureaus
    List of philatelic bureaus

    This a list of philatelic bureaus across the world....
  • List of people on stamps
    List of people on stamps

    Since 1840, when the Penny Black featured a profile of Victoria of the United Kingdom, it has been a tradition worldwide for nations to honor individuals on their postage stamps....
  • Miniature sheet
    Miniature sheet

    A souvenir sheet or miniature sheet is a small group of postage stamps still attached to the Paper on which they were printed. They may be either regular issues that just happen to be printed in small groups , or special issues often commemorating some event, such as a national anniversary, philatelic exhibition, or government program...
  • Stamp collecting
    Stamp collecting

    Stamp collecting is the collecting of postage stamps and related objects, such as Cover . It is one of the world's most popular hobby, with estimates of the number of collectors ranging up to 20 million in the United States alone....
  • Stamps
    Postage stamp

    A postage stamp is adhesive paper evidence of a fee paid for Mail services. Usually a small rectangle attached to an envelope, the stamp signifies the person sending it has fully or partly paid for delivery....
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