10 interesting and accidentally created postage stamps of the world
10 interesting and accidentally created postage stamps of the world
The hobby of preserving postage stamps is called "philately". These small postage stamps are beautiful ambassadors of their respective countries and empires, which you can see in these 10 stamps, behind which there is an interesting story hidden.
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(1) The world's first postage stamp was issued in Britain on 6 May 1840, which was named "Penny Black", which Penny Black means: - The price of this postage stamp was one penny and it was called black because this postage stamp It was printed in black on a small square paper on which Queen Victoria's portrait was also drawn.
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(2) The world's first colored postage stamp containing blue and red colors was printed in India in 1854, in which the Queen's head was accidentally printed upside down. This mistake became so famous that it was named "Classic Error". Given, the price of this postage stamp was "4 annas". Only 20 to 30 such postage stamps are available in India.
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(3) The first Indian postage stamp of India, which was issued on 21 November 1947, had the name "Jai Ghosh" or "Jai Hind" and was priced at "3:30 annas" on which in blue letters " "Jai Hind" was written and a "picture of the Indian flag" was also drawn.
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(4) The world's first circular postage stamp was introduced by the British in Sindh province on 1 July 1852 as a prepaid stamp costing one anna which was stamped by melting red mom, hence it was called the "Scinde Dawk".
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(5) One year after independence, India celebrated its first independence anniversary on 15 August 1948. On this occasion, four postage stamps were issued in which the image of Mahatma Gandhi was present.
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(6) The world's most expensive postage stamp which was discovered by a small school child Vanoun Vandhan named "British Guiana 1c Magenta" also known as "1 cent magenta" It is an "octagonal postage stamp" printed in black The story of its discovery is more interesting than this stamp which was printed in red ink.
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(7) This stamp of Germany is very special because due to a small mistake of a printer, it was printed in green color instead of pink and "9 Kreuzer Error Stamp" instead of "6 Kreuzer Error Stamp" and the most interesting thing is The thing is that even after 44 years of the stamp being issued, the mistake made by the printer was not detected.
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(8) This postage stamp was first used to deliver mail in World War I. Inverted image of "Curtiss JN-4 HM aircraft" on the United States "Inverted Jenny Stamp" due to a printer's error at that time The interesting thing was that at that time people had not even seen the plane, due to which this mistake was also ignored.
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(9) Benjamin Franklin was an American who significantly contributed to the philatelic service. He was completely against reusing postage stamps, of which the "Benjamin Franklin Jade Grill" postage stamp was the most important.
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(10) This postage stamp of "Tiflis Yunika" of the Russian Empire was the first such stamp that was made by stamping on paper, which was one of the great stamps. At present, only 5 such copies are in existence.
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