Penny Red
19th-century British postage stamp / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the postage stamp. For British columnist and blogger, see Laurie Penny.
The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1879, with only minor changes to the design during that time. The colour was changed from black to red because of difficulty in seeing a cancellation mark on the Penny Black; a black cancellation mark was readily visible on a Penny Red.[1]
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Quick Facts Date of production, Printer ...
Date of production | 1841 (1841)ā1879 (1879) |
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Printer | Perkins, Bacon & Co |
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Depicts | Queen Victoria (1837ā1901) |
Face value | 1d |
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