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Show both for Sir Rowlond 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 nnd engraved by Frederick Heath. London Tit-Bits. Americans Printed First Postage Stamps for King The first British postage stamps were made at 09 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 & 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 wos adopted and proved to be Just what was wanted. Credit for the invention of the adhesive ad-hesive postage stump hns been claimed |
