subject: Stamp Common Sense: World's First Stamp Caused A Legend [print this page] Stamps carved by the sculptor Sheehan Brothers Ban Mo, Perkins. Believed Limited printing. No shading in the white paper, facing the sun for a photo, you can see Each stamp in the middle of a small crown watermark, so that the world's first "Penny Black" stamp was born. "Penny Black" stamp to postal significant step forward, marking the world's modern postal service, in an epoch-making significance. "Penny Black" is the color and denominations collectively. It uses black engraving printing imperforated not standard country names, only the Queen's portrait, this tradition has been followed so far. Logo at the top of the "Postage" on the bottom is that the face value of "one penny" and that the print runs of 12 stamps each line composed of a total of 20 lines of stamps, a total of 20 lines, each 240. This is because the British currency was 1 pound = 12 shillings = 240 pence, a full print runs just one pound. Particularly interesting is that the stamps are the following corners and one each in the English alphabet, the same line on the right hand side of the lower left corner of the letter of the same stamp pattern. The first line of A, the second row is B, the following analogy in alphabetical order; in the lower right corner of the letter patterns are printed in sheets of stamps that position, from left to right, arranged in alphabetical order, as the first horizontally from left to to the right for the AA, AB, AC up to Al, the second horizontal sequence BA, BB, BC, until Bl ... ... The purpose of this arrangement is to prevent counterfeiting. Although in 1840 a considerable number of existing stamps, but a complete restoration the original print runs is very difficult. As the stamp just come out, people do not know how to stamp what is, so every whole "penny black" side of paper were printed caption: "Each stamp is a penny for every sale of a shilling line 12 Each sheet sold a British list.
Stamp Common Sense: World's First Stamp Caused A Legend
