If you think that stamp collecting is silly, or that it can’t be potentially lucrative, think again. The most expensive postage stamp in the world was just sold at auction in Geneva! This one-of-its-kind stamp was printed in Sweden in 1857 and is known as the “Treskilling Yellow” or three shilling stamp. It was issued [...]
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The Birth of the Stamp
Have you ever wondered when the stamp was first used, and who thought of this system of communication? The first government-printed postage stamp was born on May 6, 1840. In 1837, Sir Rowland Hill, the British Postmaster General, first introduced the idea of the postage stamp. The idea was to create a system whereby mail [...]
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