FIRST STAMPS

First stamp of the German State of Baviera; it was emitted in November of 1849.

After the success of the first two English emissions, the 1 black penny and the 2 blue pennies, the postal entities of numerous countries began to study the method of British postage to apply it to their respective correspondences. This way in the ten years that continued to the appearance of the first stamp between 1840 and 1850, first fourteen emissions were happened to a total of twenty-nine stamps.

If the correspondence non official is excepted carried out by the messengers private de  the American cities of New York and Boston that emitted stamps (the first city, the gray black 3 cents, and the second the black 2 cents), the second emission postal  of the world is due to Switzerland. March 1 1843 appeared the emission of two values, of 4 and 6 rappen, forms in black in the Swiss town of Zurich.

Of the first one used for the interior mail, 30.000 copies were emitted, while of the second, dedicated to the cantonal mail, they were carried out 160.000 copies. Of the first effect used as rate local they are scarce copies. The same as the well-known stamp as double of Geneva, the 5+5 cents, emitted September of that same year 30; it is considered as the strangest piece in Switzerland, since only they were sold with big difficulties 6.000 copies Half stamp of double Geneva used in the interior service. It is the number 1 of Switzerland (canton of Geneva) and it was emitted in 1843.

August 1 , 1843 the emperor Pedro II from Brazil authorized the emission of three values of 30, 60 and 90 reis, forms in

I seal of the first emission of Belgium, carried out in 1849 and cultured with Leopoldo I effigy carrying the famous charreteras. black for the British signature Perkins Bacon & Co. This way, Brazil was the first American nation that adopted the postal reformation of sir Rowland Hill officially. Their editions were millionaire and these stamps received the nickname of ox eyes to have the value of the rate in the center of an oval with some strange ripples that give the impression of some eyes of bovine.

April of 1847, 16 Trinidad, the most southern island in the Antilles, put in circulation a blue stamp of 5 cents to be used in the cancellation of the correspondence that transported the ship Lady Mcleod, of there the initials and the rudimentary drawing of a craft that you/they appear in the effect.

On the other hand, the official mail of United States carried out its first emission, before beginning the war of Secession, August 5 1847; it is two values of 5 and 10 cultured cents with Benjamín Franklin's effigies and George Washington. First stamp of Denmark; it was emitted in 1852. It has the real crown and with the bagpipe of mail.

    The emission more coveted by the collectors it is the number 1 of the islands Mauricio. It dates of September of 1847, when the archipelago was still colony

I seal number 1 of Russia; it was emitted in 1858y it is cultured with the coat of arms of the dynasty of the Románov, czars of the Russian empire. British, and it consists of two stamps of 1 and 2 pennies that you/they have ended up being the strangest and famous in the world.
With only value, the one penny, emitted in red and black two different colors, another of the emissions appeared in the Bermuda shorts more looked for by the collectors. It was put
in circulation in 1848 to initiative of W.B. Perot, director of mail of the port city of Hamilton. The stamps are circular and the value is hand written. I seal of the first emission of the Low Countries, carried out in 1852 and cultured with the bust of Guillermo III.
I seal belonging to the first series of France, emitted in 1849 and cultured with the goddess's effigy Ceres. With the emission of January of 1849, 1 France was added to the countries that adopted the revolutionary postal system with a total of seven values of 10, 15, 20, 25, and 40 cents and two effects of 1 franc. They are the famous   Ceres, of the II Republic. They didn't put on simultaneously in circulation and they are only considered true number 1 to the 20 cents and the 1 franc.

Épaulettes means charreteras and for that name the first Belgian stamps are known. July 1 1849 and the charreteras were emitted they appeared in the military uniform that king Leopoldo I behaved in the stamps of 10 and 20 cents (5 millions of copies were emitted of each one).

Second stamp of Peru, emitted in 1857 by the Company  of the Océano Pacífico.    In November of the same year they were carried out the interesting emissions of the German old States, eighteen of those which put in circulation a total of 72 stamps, being the first one that of Baviera, the 1 black gray kreuzer. I seal of the first series of the Austrian empire, emitted in 1850.

 

Rooms and real of Isabel II

Spain could be after England the pioneer in the emission of postal effects, when in 1843 the government minister, Fermín Caballero, tried to implant the stamp, but the internal political fights impeded it. She/he had to be expected up to the governmental reformation of San Luis' count, and January 1 1850 the first Spanish stamps they appeared, put for sale in the from Madrid House of Posts. They were cultured with Isabel's II portrait that had been carried out by the recording B. Corominas (it used like I model the commemorative medal designed by the Belgian J.A. Pringret). the queen's effigy appeared for the first time in five values: black 6 rooms (of the one that 2 types are known, as they came from the first one or of the second iron), fourth 12 lilac, 5 real red, 6 real blue and 10 real green.

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