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Article: Penny Black makes a comeback, thanks to a Yorkshire artist
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- Yorkshire Post
- Article date:
- August 10, 2004
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Jane Charnley
THE first postage stamp ever printed, the Penny Black, is in use
today for the first time since the death of Queen Victoria - and the
new version has been designed by a Yorkshireman.
The world famous Penny Black will appear as a stamp within a stamp
on an envelope addressed to Sir Rowland Hill, who in 1840 introduced
what became the global method of paying for mail delivery.
The first-class stamp is part of a series printed by Royal Mail to
commemorate the 250th anniversary of the Royal Society for the Arts
(RSA).
Sir Rowland Hill was the first winner of the RSA's Albert Medal,
for his postal reforms and the introduction of the Penny Black,
issued between 1840 and 1841.
The ...