GREAT BRITAIN – 1840, Penny Black – worth US.$.5 million
The UK’s 1840 issued Penny Black is the first stamp in the world. It was designed by Rowland Hill, who proposed the reform of the […]
The UK’s 1840 issued Penny Black is the first stamp in the world. It was designed by Rowland Hill, who proposed the reform of the […]
This first Two-Penny Blue stamp was contemporaneous with the Penny Black. Both were issued in early May 1840. Of all the 2d blue stamps, Scott […]
This 1884 stamp is one of the rarest from the Victorian era. Those that feature the original gum – the adhesive on the back that […]
The Penny Black was the world’s first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in the United Kingdom, on […]
One Edward VII 6d Pale Dull Purple I.R. Official stamp, which was withdrawn almost as soon as it was issued in 1904, sold for £400,000 […]
In 1976, the Royal National Rose Society featured 4 different stamps of which millions were printed. Three of the 13p “Sweet Briar” examples had their […]
The 2d Tyrian plum was a stamp produced in Britain in 1910 with a portrait of King Edward VII. 24 million of these stamps were […]
Millions of Penny Reds were printed between 1841 and 1879. There were flaws in one of the printing plates (No. 77) which meant that the […]
The Mauritius “Post Office” stamps were issued by the British Colony Mauritius in September 1847, in two denominations: an orange-red one penny and a deep […]
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