Penny Black (redirected frompenny blacks) Encyclopedia n (Philately) the first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain in 1840; an imperforate stamp bearing the profile of Queen Victoria on a dark background Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged, 12th Edition 2014 © HarperCollin...
Misschien had hij de Penny Black ergens anders verstopt, in het handschoenenvakje van Harriets Rolls-Royce bijvoorbeeld. Literature In May 1840, the first adhesive postage stamp went on sale in Britain and soon became famous as the Penny Black. In mei 1840 werd de eerste gegomde postze...
A mistake on one inexpensive postage stamp has made the stamp worth a million and a half times its original value. The mistake was made more than a hundred years ago in the British colony of Mauritius, a small island in the Indian Ocean. In 1847 an order for stamps was sent to a ...
Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Applied to Ink Characterization of One-P enny Postage Stamps Printed 1841-1880. Analytica Chimica Acta, 555(1):161-166.Ferrer, N.; Vila, A. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy applied to ink characterization of one-penny postage stamps printed 1841-...
A Penny Black with a hole in its center, such as might have been produced by the bill of a dead jack snipe. Een Penny Black met een gat erin dat heel goed veroorzaakt zou kunnen zijn door de snavel van de dode snip. Literature These were the famous one-penny stamps bearing ...