Introduction to the origin of stamps

Before the birth of 1840 stamps, there were many forms of payment by mail. 1653, a tenant of the Paris post office, Jean-Jacob Leod Villier, invented a payment bill similar to stamps, which was worth one sou. The back of this payment slip is not sticky, so it needs to be fixed to the letter with a clip or rope. At present, this kind of payment ticket is hard to see, and the spread to this world is unknown.

Britain also has a similar stamp predecessor. Starting from 1680, William Dukwa and Robert Murray, businessmen of Finney Post Office in London, developed a new unified postal price system. Their practice of postmarking the sender's mail was very popular, which made the Duke of York's monopoly position in the postal field at that time in jeopardy.

The first two stamps were designed by Count rowland hill. To this end, he received thousands of designs and finally abandoned them for him. The portrait on the stamp comes from a commemorative coin of 1837 that he particularly likes. The background color of stamps with face value 1p is black, and that of stamps with face value 2p is blue. Henry Coba made engraving for it, and the printing work was undertaken by Perkins and Bacon Perth Printing House.

Black penny stamps also have their shortcomings. The black postmark on stamps is not easy to read and easy to wash off, so some people exploit loopholes to reuse it. Therefore, the subsequent 1p stamps were all printed in red, and the red penny stamps were published on February 184 1.

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1, Sir rowland hill-

Sir rowland hill, English: Sir. Rowland hill? (1795 65438+February 3-1August 27, 879), British, inventor and designer of the world's first stamp (black penny), British postal reformer, founder and inventor of stamps. He used to be a teacher, a middle school principal, a government employee and a postmaster. Known as the "father of stamps".

2. Stamp promotion-

Shortly after the birth of these two stamps, other countries began to use them. Some stamps appeared in America 184 1 and 1842. 1843, Brazil also had the first set of stamps, a total of three, with face values of 30, 60 and 90 reais respectively. It is called bull's-eye stamp and is one of the rare stamps in the world.

On March 1843 and 1 day, zurich state, Switzerland issued local stamps with Arabic numerals 4 and 6 as the main patterns, which is the first set of two-color stamps in the world. 1849, France issued the first set of stamps with the theme of Thrace, the goddess of grain.

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