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Show both for Sir Rowland Hill and for James Chalmers, a bookseller of Dundee. Dun-dee. The first British postage stamp was black and was introduced In 184L It was a queen's head designed by Henry Corbould and engraved by Frederick Heath. London Tit-Bits. Americans Printed First Postage Stamps for King The first British postage stamps were made at 69 Fleet street, London, over eighty years ago. About 1819 two men came over from the United States and started a printing print-ing and engraving business which to this day is known as Perkins, Bacon 8c Co., Ltd. They were Jacob Perkins, an Inventor, and Gideon Fairman, an engraver, and with them were associated asso-ciated the two sons of James Heath, R. A. The famous Perkins process of engraving en-graving on steel was applied and when millions of postage stamps were first required the Perkins method was adopted and proved to be just what was wanted. Credit for the invention of the adhesive ad-hesive postage stamp has been claimed |