Show I Postage Stamps The Tho history of posta postage c stumps b be s- s gins with the thc Issue made by Great Grent Britain Brit Brit- I ale ain in 1840 1540 under the administration of or Sir Rowland Hill Their successful j juc use uc In Grout Greet Britain re resulted in the i adoption of or stamps b by Mauritius 1 an nn I English colony by France Switzerland mid and the United States The earliest shape of the tho postage I stamp was practically that which Is 19 In use today The triangular diamond diamond- I l shaped octagonal and nd square have lJ been n trI tried ns as experiments by hy different I countries but in nearly all ull cases return re rt turn has lIas been beeD wade wadI to the rectangular form torm j |