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History of the Black Penny Stamp

The Black Penny stamp, is also known as the Penny Black, was the first adhesive postage stamp in the postal system to be used. It was the post of the United Kingdom and Ireland on 1 May 1840 as part of the reforms suggested by Rowland Hill. All London post offices received official stamps affixed to the mail that went through it, but to enforce the practice of using the Penny Black did not immediately throughout the country. Post offices in other parts of the countrycontinue with its normal method of payment for e-mail, which often means that the recipient was responsible for paying the postage.

The Penny Black was the brainchild of Sir Rowland Hill in an attempt to reform the post office. His idea of affixing a prepaid stamp to each piece of mail was seen to have merit and he was a two-year contract to implement the new system in 1840, will be promoted. He ran a competition for a new stamp design, but none of the messages he received were deemed worthyis the winner. His first design was that of a rough engraving of Queen Victoria as a young girl. Hill believes that it would be extremely difficult for counterfeiters to copy this design. The stamp contained the word postage? And the name of the stamp, but there was no mention of the name of the country. At that time it was the first time anyone used postage stamps and therefore something very special was the United Kingdom.

The Penny Black was on the market for about aYear. This has been canceled because the stamp was the postmaster was red and very difficult to see against the black background. This meant that many people were reusing the stamps and sending messages basically free. The result was that the Finance Ministry turned to the Penny Red and changed the color of the cancellation mark to black. The printing process of the Black Penny postage stamp required eleven o'clock plates.

Were printed on a sheet of 240 stamps, and since the breakthrough yethad invented, the stamps will be cut with scissors. Although it is a collector ¯ point, the Penny Black stamp is not a rare stamp. There was almost seventy million stamps printed in its short lifespan and many of them are still around. It is readily available in collectors? Circles with a stamp used in bad shape usually costs only $ 10 A stamp in mint condition, but is much more expensive at about $ 3000.

In addition to the stamp used for postal,There was an issue of the Black Penny for official use only printed. Such a stamp contains the letters V and R instead of the stars in the upper corners, which are on the regular stamps. All officials and offices receive a large number of these stamps, which are few, thus it is this form of the stamp is a rare book.



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