Bring on the Clowns! Circus Stamps Delight Collectors

Monaco has just issued this delightful circus stamp set that captures the joy of life under the Big Top. Click the post title to order.

Thought to have its origin in Ancient Rome's Circus Maximus, the modern circus seems to have been the brain child of Briton Phillip Astley. Gathering roving performers under one tent, Astley established permanent and travelling circuses throughout Britain and Europe in the late 18th century.

Showman P.T. Barnum and his partner William Coup revolutionized the American circus. They combined traditional circus acts with sideshows that exhibited human and animal oddities like the two-headed goat and the bearded lady. The freakshow was a purely American invention of which we can all be proud! Coup was the first to use circus trains to travel between towns and the first to introduce multi-ringed circuses. Barnum later teamed with his greatest competitor, James Bailey, another legendary circus showman, to create the Barnum & Bailey Circus, billed as the Greatest Show on Earth.

County Stamp Center offers enough circus stamps to fill all three rings! Just click the link to see what our ring master has to show you. Use our convenient Quick Search feature to find stamps that feature your favorite part of the circus: clowns, elephants, lions, etc. Come to County Stamp Center for all your philatelic needs.