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violet black

Stamps with this color only:
  • Colnect-1160-641-Type-Sage-Type-II.jpg
  • Colnect-853-153-Type-Sage.jpg
  • Colnect-3657-681-Type-Sage.jpg
  • Colnect-809-504-Type-Sage.jpg
  • Colnect-2398-017-Type-Sage.jpg
  • Colnect-6075-004-Type-Sage.jpg
  • Colnect-811-303-Type-Sage.jpg
  • Colnect-135-334-Emperor-Franz-Joseph.jpg
  • Colnect-135-349-Emperor-Franz-Joseph.jpg
  • Martha_Washington22_1903_Issue-8c.jpg
  • Colnect-919-840-Paper-mills.jpg
  • Colnect-2412-487-King-Nicholas-I-1841-1921.jpg
  • Colnect-4081-891-Benjamin-Franklin-1706-1790-leading-author-and-politician.jpg
  • Colnect-4083-414-Benjamin-Franklin-1706-1790-leading-author-and-politician.jpg
  • Lincoln_Memorial_1922.jpg
  • Colnect-4377-918-Lincoln-Memorial.jpg
  • 1925_Canal_Zone_Stamp.jpg
  • Colnect-1412-632-Kaieteur-Falls.jpg
  • Colnect-941-150-Bombing-of-a-peaceful-city.jpg
  • Colnect-846-542-Map.jpg
  • Colnect-4003-290-Czorsztyn.jpg
  • Colnect-3812-389-Kaieteur-Falls.jpg
  • Colnect-2433-945-Maharaja-and-Aruvikara-Falls.jpg
  • Colnect-2198-632-Veliki-Tabor.jpg
  • Colnect-2221-934-Reinhard-Heydrich-1904-1942-deputy-protector.jpg
  • Colnect-582-326-Black-Rhinoceros-Diceros-bicornis-African-Rock-Phython-P.jpg
  • Colnect-147-452-Prince-Louis-II-1870-1949.jpg
  • Colnect-165-093-Vulcanic-eruption.jpg
  • Colnect-2646-186-Travancore-Overprint.jpg
  • Stamp_of_USSR_1424.jpg
  • Colnect-168-735-Portrait-of-Domenico-Cimarosa-and-lyre.jpg
  • Colnect-1419-605-Bicentenary-of-the-birth-of-Domenico-Cimarosa.jpg
  • Colnect-1838-557-150-years-born-Vincenzo-Bellini.jpg
  • Colnect-3698-932-JW-Stalin-1879-1953.jpg
  • Colnect-786-491-Petroleum-extraction-in-ancient-times.jpg
  • Colnect-4416-573-Frederic-Chopin.jpg
  • Colnect-1440-549-River-dam.jpg
  • Colnect-2576-599-Basketball.jpg
  • Colnect-136-481-Farmhouse-M-ouml-rbisch.jpg
  • Colnect-2272-742-Eastern-Great-White-Egret-Casmerodius-modestus.jpg
  • Colnect-438-914-Prague.jpg
  • Colnect-3513-661-Josip-Broz-Tito-1892-1980-president.jpg
  • Colnect-136-685-Saint-Stephen.jpg
  • Colnect-420-391-Panorama-of-Ganek-Mountains.jpg
  • Stamp_Ernst_Barlach.jpg
  • Colnect-4280-803-Timber-sledge.jpg
  • Colnect-5505-286-Church-and-bridge-in-Bohinj.jpg
  • Colnect-3655-843-Church-of-Solitude.jpg
  • Colnect-185-282-King-Baudouin-Type--quot-Elstr-ouml-m-quot----Polyvalent-Paper.jpg
  • Colnect-2425-657-Winston-Spencer-Churchill-1874-1965.jpg
  • Colnect-3925-611-Seismograph.jpg
  • Colnect-137-021-Lise-Meitner-1878-1968-atomic-physicist.jpg
  • Colnect-510-770-Otto-Sch%C3%B6n-1905-1968.jpg
  • Colnect-1982-812-Clara-Zetkin-1857-1933.jpg
  • Colnect-3929-957-Ship--Svanur-.jpg
  • Colnect-149-228-Prince-Rainier-III.jpg
  • Colnect-149-230-Prince-Louis-II.jpg
  • Colnect-149-229-Villa-Miraflores-Monte-Carlo-stamp-issuing-office.jpg
  • Colnect-179-511-Artistic-Heritage--Firenze.jpg
  • Colnect-2502-152-Lawn-bowling.jpg
  • Colnect-438-144-Coat-of-arms.jpg
  • US114.06.jpg

In combination with other colors:
  • Colnect-3536-971-Porto.jpg
  • Colnect-1250-970-Petroleum.jpg
  • Colnect-4737-143-Petroleum.jpg
  • Colnect-1250-971-Petroleum.jpg
  • Colnect-6042-050-Network-of-Railway-Lines.jpg
  • Colnect-133-787-JA-Zinnen.jpg
  • Colnect-3804-812-Founder-Paul-P-Harris.jpg
  • Colnect-144-089-Le-Verrier-Urbain-1811-1877.jpg
  • Colnect-6192-935-Postage-Due-1965.jpg
  • Colnect-6192-930-Postage-Due-1965.jpg
  • Colnect-2578-385-Turkish-fleet.jpg
  • Colnect-4564-299-Winston-Churchill-1874-1965.jpg
  • Colnect-3468-892-President-Kennedy-taking-oath-of-office.jpg
  • Colnect-136-608-Worker-protecting-his-face-with-his-arm.jpg
  • Colnect-1348-747-John-Dory-Zeus-faber.jpg
  • Colnect-5000-386-Hemisfair.jpg
  • Colnect-185-025-Queen-Fabiola-Foundation.jpg
  • Colnect-3101-485-Postage-Due.jpg
  • Colnect-853-870-Scorpion-Conch-Lambis-scorpius.jpg
  • Colnect-2580-977-Cable-laying-Railroad-Car.jpg
  • Colnect-4969-545-International-Book-Year.jpg
  • Colnect-4287-853-%E2%80%9CView-of-Trosa%E2%80%9D-R-Ljunggren.jpg
  • Colnect-2188-591-Ruins-of-Afamia.jpg
  • Colnect-1380-797-Memorial-building.jpg
  • Colnect-1630-950-Year-of-Buffalo.jpg
  • Colnect-134-720-European-Investment-Bank.jpg
  • Colnect-1479-271-Double-handled-flask.jpg
  • Colnect-1892-243-Double-handled-flask.jpg
  • Colnect-2325-625-Mohammed-Ali-Jinnah.jpg
Description: violet black
Abbrev: vioblk

Red: 0.10 (25)
Green: 0.00 (0)
Blue: 0.20 (51)



Used by 67 stamps: (See all uses as list)
Austria postage 12/1899 2h issue=1899 d=Franz Josef (1890) unwmk perf=9-12.5
Austria postage 6/18/1901 2h issue=1901 d=Franz Josef (1890) var=varnish bars unwmk perf=9-12.5
Austria postage 1961 20g issue=buildings d=Farmhouse Mörbisch unwmk perf=14
Austria postage 1/28/1969 2s issue=Vienna Diocese 900th d=Saint Stephen unwmk
Austria postage 11/7/1978 6s issue=Meitner 100th d=Lise Meitner (1978) unwmk perf=14.25x13.5
Belgium postage 1974 6.50fr issue=1970a d=King Baudouin (1970) unwmk perf=11.5
Bolivia postage 2/1/1935 50c d=map of Bolivia (1935) unwmk
British Guiana postage 1934 4c issue=George V pictorials d=Kaieteur Falls & King George V wmk=mult crown & script CA perf=14
British Guiana postage 1938 2c issue=George VI pictorials d=Kaieteur Falls & King George VI wmk=mult crown & script CA perf=14
Newfoundland postage 2/1911 10c issue=Guy 1911 d=paper mills unwmk perf=14
Costa Rica airmail 7/16/1973 5c dt=churches and cathedrals (1973) unwmk perf=12.5
Croatia postage 4/14/1943 12.50k d=Veliki Tabor unwmk
Czechoslovakia postage 2/13/1967 1.60k issue=International Tourism Year d=Prague (1967) unwmk perf=11.75
Czechoslovakia postage 9/8/1969 60h issue=Tatra Mountains National Park 20th d=Ganek unwmk perf=11.25
Bohemia & Moravia semipostal 5/28/1943 60+440h issue=1st Anniversary of the Death of Reinhard Heydrich unwmk
Denmark postage 1/2/2003 11.50k unwmk
French Colonies postage 1878 35c pc=org issue=1878 d=Peace & Commerce var=II unwmk imperf
French Equatorial Africa postage 2/10/1947 30c issue=1947 d=black rhinoceros & Python unwmk
French Guiana postage 4/23/1887 20c pc=org d=Peace & Commerce var=II ovpt=Avril 1887//GUY. FRANC.//value oc=blk on=issuer=French Colonies-1878-35c-vioblk unwmk imperf
French Guiana postage 2/20/1892 35c pc=org issue=1892a d=Peace & Commerce var=II ovpt=GUYANE. oc=blk on=issuer=French Colonies-1878-35c-vioblk unwmk imperf
German Democratic Republic postage 1/20/1970 5pf dt=famous people (1970 German Democratic Republic) d=Ernst Barlach unwmk
German Democratic Republic postage 1/8/1985 10pf dt=personalities of the German labor movement d=Otto Schön unwmk
German Democratic Republic postage 3/24/1987 10pf dt=personalities of the German labor movement d=Clara Zetkin (1987) unwmk
Guadeloupe postage 2/23/1884 25c pc=org d=Peace & Commerce var=II oc=blk on=issuer=French Colonies-1878-35c-vioblk unwmk imperf
Honduras airmail 7/27/1965 12c issue=Order of Malta Campaign Against Leprosy unwmk
Hungary postage 3/5/1953 60f d=Stalin memorial wmk=stars (Cuba) perf=12
Iceland postage 12/3/1948 10k issue=Hekla eruption dt=Hekla d=distant view of Hekla unwmk perf=14
Iceland postage 3/26/1987 50k issue=Olafsvik 300th d=ship Svanur off coast unwmk
India postage 1/10/1977 2r issue=6th World Conference on Earthquake Engineering d=seismograph wmk=Asokan capital
Travancore postage 10/20/1941 6ca issue=Sir Bala Rama Varma 29th wmk=shell
TravancoreCochin postage 7/1/1949 2p oc=blk on=issuer=Travancore-1941-6ca wmk=shell
Italy postage 12/28/1949 20l issue=Cimarosa 200th d=Portrait of Domenico Cimarosa & lyre wmk=winged wheel perf=14
Italy postage 5/3/1995 750l d=Basilica of Santa Croce unwmk perf=13.25x14
Trieste postage 12/28/1949 20l issue=200th Anniversary of the Birth of Cimarosa wmk=winged wheel
Trieste postage 1/28/1952 25l issue=150th Anniversary of the Birth of Bellini wmk=winged wheel
North Korea postage 6/4/1959 10ch issue=22nd Anniversary of Battle of Pochondo unwmk perf=10C
Mali airmail 3/18/1974 500fr issue=100th Anniversary of the Birth of Sir Winston Churchill unwmk perf=13
Monaco postage 11/13/1987 4.00fr issue=50th Anniversary of Monaco Stamp Issuing Office b d=Prince Rainier III (1987) unwmk perf=13
Monaco postage 11/13/1987 4.00fr issue=50th Anniversary of Monaco Stamp Issuing Office b d=Prince Louis II (1987) unwmk perf=13
Monaco postage 11/13/1987 8.00fr issue=50th Anniversary of Monaco Stamp Issuing Office b d=Villa Miraflores unwmk perf=13
Monaco semipostal 5/15/1947 200F+300F issue=25th anniversary of the enthronement of the Prince d=Prince Louis II (1947) unwmk imperf
Montenegro postage 4/1/1913 2per issue=1913 d=King Nicholas I unwmk
New Caledonia postage 1881 25c pc=org d=Peace & Commerce var=II ovpt=bar//NCE//25//bar oc=blk on=issuer=French Colonies-issue=1878-35c unwmk imperf
New Zealand semipostal 8/2/1961 2+1p issue=Health 1961 dt=birds (1961) d=kotuku wmk=multiple NZ & star perf=13.5
Norfolk Island postage 7/23/1998 $1.05 issue=Commonwealth Games 1998 unwmk perf=14.5x14.25
Poland postage 8/5/1935 20g issue=1935 dt=scenic (1935) d=view of Pieniny unwmk perf=9-14.5
Poland postage 2/22/1960 2.50z issue=Chopin 150th d=Frederic Chopin (1960) unwmk perf=9-14.5
Poland airmail 12/30/1948 80Zł issue=160th Anniversary of the US Constitution unwmk
Romania postage 10/5/1957 55b issue=Romanian oil industry 100th d=horse-drawn drill wmk=RPR mult endless perf=13.5x14
Romania postage 6/11/1960 10b issue=1960 d=River dam wmk=RPR mult endless
(plus 17 more) See all uses as list

Used by 1 stamp as overprint color: (See all uses as list)
Haiti postage 1917 5c redbrn issue=1917c dt=landmarks (1913) d=monastery&church ovpt=box(numeral ct//GOURDE) on=issue=1906a-1913-10cp-redbrn unwmk
Used in 24 combinations:
black violet & violet black, blue & violet black, blue green & violet black, brown & violet black, dark brown & violet black, gray brown & violet black, light blue & violet black, orange & violet black, orange red & violet black, purple brown & violet black, red carmine & violet black, red purple & violet black, vermilion & violet black, violet black & black, violet black & blue, violet black & carmine red, violet black & green, violet black & olive green, violet black & red, violet black & red orange, violet black & yellow, violet black & yellow brown, violet blue & violet black, violet gray & violet black