Valentine Mark Herman's Blog – January 2024 Archive (1)

Oldest surviving piece of post to be auctioned for $2 million (friom The Times of London, 11/01/2024)

"The ornate letter sheet was stamped with a Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, over 180 years ago

The earliest surviving piece of mail using a pre-paid postage stamp that was sent to a Cumbrian iron works is to be sold in New York.

The piece of postal history is a Mulready letter sheet that was stamped with a Penny Black, the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, on May 2 1840. It was sent from London to the…

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Added by Valentine Mark Herman on January 11, 2024 at 4:20am — 1 Comment

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