Figure 8. A United States 13¢ Indian Head Penny stamp (Scott 1734). Click on image to enlarge.
Boats are great big things. You can't just park a boat on a book shelf and pull it out on a cold winter night.
Size mattered to both mailers and collectors when the USPS tried to save money on paper with the small indian head penny stamp of the 70's and the Dolly Madison stamp of the 80s.
Stamp, smallest: the 13¢ Indian Head penny definitive of 1978 measures 17mm by 20 mm, larger than the Bolivar, Colombia which issued a stamp in 1863-66 measuring 8mm by 9.55mm.
Stamp, smell: Bhutan issue of 1973 smell like roses.
 See also: Stamp, Album, Philatelic, Used, Commemorative
  
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