Newfoundland's postage stamps are miniature masterpieces of the engravers' art, depicting the history and geography of the Province.

The stamps can be divided into two general groups.  One group includes the many portrayals of members of the British royal family - often the first (or only) portayal anywhere on a postage stamp.  The second group includes the many scenes showcasing Newfoundland's natural resources and other attractions.

Virtually all designs and major colors of Newfoundland's stamps are depicted here, with the exception of three (very expensive) early airmails, which were themselves created by overprinting new values and wording onto existing stamps.  Color varieties, perforation varieties, paper watermark variaties, and the like are not considered here.

The galleries are presented in approximately chronological order.

Please note that while the images of the stamps within a single gallery are usually in a single size proportion relative to each other, the galleries do not all employ the same same size proportion relative to the actual stamps.

Each gallery also contains descriptive details below the set of small pictures.

Additions were added to the stamp images in July 2007. The thumbnail sized images have not changed, but some of the larger images displayed by clicking the thumbnails have changed. One or more varieties have been added to more than two dozen of the stamps, so that some of the larger images now consist of two (and in a few cases three) stamps.

The changes are in: the "cents issues of 1865-1876" (1c and 12c values), the "cents issues of 1880-1897" (10c), the "Guy issue of 1910" (1c and 6c), the "King George V coronation issue of 1911" (2c), the "provisionals of 1920" (2c-on-30c), the "pictorial issue of 1923-1924" (3c-on-6c), the "publicity issue of 1928-1931" (1c 2c 3c 4c 5c 6c 8c 10c 15c 20c and 30c), the "resources issue of 1932-1938" (2c-green and 5c), the "King George VI long coronation issue of 1937" (20c), the "Royal Family issues of 1938 and 1947" (3c), the "Royal Visit issue of 1939" (4c-on-5c), and the "Misc items of the 1930s and 1940s" (15c and 2c-on-30c).