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31. The Benjamin Franklin Z-Grill The Benjamin Franklin Z-Grill is a 1-cent postage stamp issued by the United States Postal Service in 1868 depicting Benjamin Franklin.
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32. Treskilling Yellow The first stamp produced by Sweden in 1855 was normally printed in a blue-green color; however this rare stamp was mistakenly printed in a yellow orange shade. The normal three skilling stamp printed in Sweden is colored green while the eight skillin...
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33. The Rarest Stamp in the World The rarest stamp in the world is the one cent black on magenta British Guiana stamp of 1856. In 1856 this colony was awaiting a supply of stamps from England but the postmaster could not wait for the delivery of stamps from England and asked the ...
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34. Television Licence Stamps After the Second World War, it became necessary for television owners to purchase a viewing licence. However it was not until 1972 that TV licence revenue stamps w...
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35. Telephone Centenary 1976 The issue commemorating the Telephone Centenary was released on 10th March, and were designed by Philip Sharland. The first ever telephone communication was made on 10th March 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell and the designs on the stamps highlight the ...
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36. The World's Rarest Stamp - 1c Guiana Magenta The British Guiana 1¢ Magenta is famed as being the world’s rarest stamp. It was issued in limited numbers in Guyana, formerly British Guiana and to this day only one example is known to exist.
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37. Training Stamps These stamps were intended primarily for training of post office workers. They were known to have been used as far back as the 1860’s. These stamps were made postally invalid by applying th...
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38. Test Stamps – “Poached Eggs.” The British Post office soon realised that it would be a good business move to allow the general public to purchase stamps in places other than post offices. There were many objections to o...
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39. Town stamp Town stamp – any postmark which includes the name of the town. It is normally applied to pre-stamp postmarks and includes all the various shapes, straight-line or boxed cancels. Rob Browning
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40. Tied Tied – an expression to indicate that the postmark or
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