210 billion tomans for a piece of fingerprint paper! / What is the price of the first stamp in the world?

According to the visual correspondent of Fars News Agency, quoted by Euronews, The world’s first postage stamp is set to go on sale at an auction in London in a few weeks.

An unused copy of the world’s first postage stamp called “Black Penny” is part of a document that is expected to sell for between 4 and 7 million euros (about 210 billion tomans).

The Black Penny was first published in Britain on May 1, 1840, and published on May 6 of that year. The stamp was embossed with the image of Queen Victoria and became known as the Black Penny because the first set had a black background color.

The unused “Black Penny” stamp, to be auctioned on December 7, is part of a collection known as the “Wallace Document.”

The collection actually contains several stamped envelopes and a page from the stationery album of Robert Wallace, a former Member of Parliament and a leading postal reformer in Britain.

This unused stamp sheet of “Black Penny”, although printed in 1840, is still in perfect condition.

It is believed that only two other specimens of the “Black Penny” have survived intact since their first print and are now housed in the British Post Museum.

The Wallace document belongs to Alan Holyoke, a British stamp collector and businessman. As one of the world’s leading collectors of stamps, he has seen many rare objects in his time.

For the great British collector, the unused “Black Penny” stamp and the Wallace Document Collection are extremely special, and he considers it a universal symbol derived from the world’s first printed stamp sheet.

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