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postal clerks with huge pens seated around an enlarged inkwell marked "Official." To the left and right of the inkwell appear the words "Penny" and "Penates", respectively. In
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stamp, the world's first adhesive postage stamp, used on a postcard. It was sold at auction in 2002 for ÂŁ31,750 (US$ 44,300), the most ever paid for a postcard.
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stamp—the world's oldest self-adhesive postage stamp, normally used just for letters. First issued 1 May 1840, the Penny Black stamp was changed to a
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a year later because the red ink used for cancelling the black stamp could be easily washed off and the stamp reused without additional payment.
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first postcards were made some twenty years later, in the 1860s. The Penny
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