Asia's first adhesive stamp, the “Scinde Dawk,” was introduced by a man named Sir Bartle Frere, who was an administrator for the British East India Company. Stamps keep countries running Stamp collectors help the economy in smaller countries where limited runs of intricate stamps are produced...
Many of the handstamps were locally made and varied from town to town, some incorporating wording. A further volume contained entires with handstuck “2” marks in black, the majority indicative of the fact that the sender had not pre-paid the postage and 2d was to be collected by the ...