This week marks 180 years since the Penny Black was made available, and it's first day of use should have been 6 May 1840. Now I know very little about Penny Blacks and they certainly don't fall into the category of Modern Postal History, so....?
On my main blog are a number of links to others. These were all active when originally linked but some writers have fallen by the wayside - but their blogs remain. So here is a good example of (reasonably) modern postal history from 1940, depicting usages of the Centenary set of 6.
If I can put my hands on them, I'll add some of my covers here later.
Great Britain Philately, written in 2012.
On my main blog are a number of links to others. These were all active when originally linked but some writers have fallen by the wayside - but their blogs remain. So here is a good example of (reasonably) modern postal history from 1940, depicting usages of the Centenary set of 6.
If I can put my hands on them, I'll add some of my covers here later.
Great Britain Philately, written in 2012.
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| Red X Cover prepared for the 1940 Stamp Centenary Exhibition but used (apparently in 1943) by the Red X Churches Committee, with a red postage paid postmark. |
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