The Penny Black Stamp Store: PB01: Excellent Penny Black 1d

Friday, 21 December 2012

PB01: Excellent Penny Black 1d - Impossible to Upgrade

Code PB01: SG2 / 1840 issued Penny Black 1d Black. The stamp consists of 4 generous and even margins that are seldom encountered. These were cut using scissors leaving usually uneven margins. The A-G stamp also has an extremely well-marked red Maltese Cross cancellation. It has a pencilled numeral 3 on the reverse on a clean paper that can be rubbed off. An excellent example that would be impossible to upgrade. ~~£375.00~~ £345.00 plus postage, shipped from Great Britain with insured post and using Royal Mail Special Delivery. A real investment, don't miss it! To order, email us at pennyblackstore@gmail.com

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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.