The Penny Black Stamp Store: Giveaways ... (now gone to a good home!)

Wednesday 29 August 2012

Giveaways ... (now gone to a good home!)

Some giveaways to a good home - They are free and I will pay for the postage if you are in the UK. If you are based overseas, we can always work out the postage costs involved through paypal. For those interested particularly in BPMA's Diamond Jubilee Exhibition, the Newsletter and the British Philatelic Bulletin's Special Souvenir Edition 2012 will make a good read. Also to giveaway is the British Philatelic Bulletin, Volume 49, Number 11, July 2012. They are the Official Royal Mail magazine for stamp collectors and free to anyone who wants them. Do get in touch by emailing me at: pennyblackstore@gmail.com

*update* The giveaways have been posted off - thanks for all who asked!

Happy Collecting!

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A Brief History

Before 1st May 1840, posting a letter was a very complicated and expensive affair. It could cost the equivalent of a days wage, and it was charged by how many sheets of paper were used and how far it had to travel. Normally the recipient had to pay the cost.

Sir Roland Hill was responsible for reforming the British postal system, and as part of this a competition was held for the public to design the world’s first adhesive postage stamp. However none of the entries were thought suitable, so instead they used the profile sketch of a then 15 year old Queen Victoria. This image was used on stamps until the end of her reign. Because the Penny Black was the first postage stamp in the world, it did not show a country of origin, and to this day British stamps are the only stamps in the world that do not state what country they are from.

However, the Penny Black only remained in circulation for a year, as it was soon found that it was possible to remove the ink of the red cancellation mark and re-use the stamp, so the Treasury switched to the Penny Red and black cancellation ink.