The Lure of the
Penny Black
by Dominic Savastano
Practically every stamp collector in the world would like to own a Great Britain 1840 Penny Black. It doesn’t matter if you collect stamps from countries from Abu Dhabi to Zululand or anything in between. The Penny Black is the Mother (therefore perhaps the Two Pence blue is the Father!) of Postage Stamps. However, there is much more to the lure of the Penny Black than the fact that it was the first Postage Stamp in the world, beating off other contenders for the title, such as the Greek 40 Lepta label of 1831 or the socalled Austrian 1k.of 1839...
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