The Penny Red is a British postage, published in 1841. It succeeded Penny Black and continued as a major type of postage stamp in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland until 1879, with only minor changes to the design during that time. The color changes from black to red because of the difficulty of seeing the cancellation marks on Penny Black; Black cancellations are easily seen on Penny Red.
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Histori
Initially, some of the same plates used to print Penny Black were used to print Penny Red and about 21 billion Penny Reds were printed by Messrs. Perkins, Bacon & amp; Co Initially, the stamps did not have perforations, and had to be cut from the sheets using scissors in the same way as Penny Black and the initial prints of the Two blue cents. Perforation, (experimental measure 16), first began to be used in 1850 and was officially adopted in 1854 (in the same measure as the experimental problem). Experimental problems can be distinguished from common problems as they are then applied to stamps that use different types of alphabets for lower-case letters. Each stamp has a unique angular letter AA, AB, AC... AL etc., so its position on the plate can be identified.
In January 1855, the size of the perforation changed from 16 to 14 because it was found that the sheet was too easily detached. The reduced size allows the sheet to remain intact until pressure is applied to force the separation.
The stamps are printed in 240 sheets (20 lines 12 stamps), so one line costs 1 shilling and one complete sheet of one pound. This 240 postage stamp configuration followed with all British stamps issued until 1971 when the decimal currency was introduced when the sheet size was changed to 200, (20 lines 10 stamps) making the lowest denomination (half a cent) a pound per sheet.
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Plate number
On April 1, 1864, the stamp was issued with a plate number engraved in the design, on the left and right side of the lace. At the moment, the stars in the upper corner are also replaced with the same check letter as used in the lower corner, but in reverse order.
Due to wear and tear, over 400 different plates were used to print Penny Red. Two different groundwater markers were used for paper, small crown, (on initial issues) and large crowns, introduced on May 15, 1855. The first stamps printed on large crowned watermark paper showed two small vertical lines in the center of the crown. Then the mold shows a revised watermark where these central lines are not present.
Stamps of some individual plate numbers, such as plate 77, are very rare and by 2016, examples of these plates are auctioned off for England Ã, £ 495,000.
Withdrawal
The Penny Red era ended in late 1879, along with the Perkins Bacon contract. It was replaced by Penny Venetian Red printed by De La Rue, used for over a year before being replaced by long-lived Penny Lilac. Since then, the stamp has become a demand amongst stamp collectors.
Chronology
- February 10, 1841 - first edition: 1d stamp colors change from black to red-brown.
- February 24, 1854 - perforation 16 was introduced.
- January 1855 - the size of the perforation changed from 16 to 14.
- May 15, 1855 - Water sign changed from a small crown to a great crown.
- 1858 - the letters in all four corners, the red-colored lake
- April 1, 1864 - letters on all four corners and plate numbers engraved on each stamp of plate 71 and so on.
- October 27, 1879 - last plate (225) forced to press.
- December 3, 1879 - contract to print Penny Red officially ends.
See also
- Archer Roulette
- List of English postage
- List of famous stamps
- Postage stamps and postal history of Great Britain
Resources and resources
- Notes
- Source
- Stanley Gibbons Ltd, Catalog of Special Caps Volume 1: Queen Victoria
- J.B. Seymour & amp; C. Gardiner-Hill Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part 1 (Royal Philatelic Society London, 3rd ed., 1967)
- W.R.D. Wiggins (Ed.) Postage Stamps of Great Britain Part 2 (Royal Philatelic Society London, 2nd ed., 1962)
External links
- Examples of unused Penny Reds from the Phillips Collection at the British Post History Museum
- Penny Red Collector
- Plate 77
- Articles by Robert Murray, intended for beginners.
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