FIRST POSTAGE STAMPS
The year 1934 witnessed the issue of a new British postage stamp. The first of such stamps were made at 69 Fleet Street London. 114 years ago. . About 1819 two men came from the United States and started a printing and engraving business. They were Jacob Perkins, an . inventor, and Gideon Fairman. an engraver. With them were associated the two sons of James Heath. R.A. The famous Perkins process of engraving on steel was applied. When millions of postage stamps were first required the Perkins method was adopted, and it proved to be just what was wanted. Credit for the invention of the adhesive postage stamp has been claimed both for Sir Rowland Hill and for Mr. James Chalmers, a bookseller of Dundee. The first British postage stamp was black. Introduced in 1841, it was a Queen’s head designed by Henry Corbould, and engraved by Frederick Heath.
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Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 23
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150FIRST POSTAGE STAMPS Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 169, 13 April 1935, Page 23
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