1875 25c Newspaper & Periodical Stamp,hard paper, no gum, dark carmine

Newspaper and Periodical stamps were only in use between 1865 and 1898. Today these stamps from the past are not widely collected because they are so difficult to find. In fact we have a hard time finding enough stamps for our collectors because they were not sold to the public, but to publishers. Attached to bundles, most of the stamps were thrown away with the periodicals wrappings making them among Americas rarest stamps.