Postage Stamps

The only country that doesn't have its name on its stamps		United Kingdom
English teacher, inventor and social reformer (1795–1897), who campaigned for a comprehensive reform of the postal system, resulting in the penny post (1840)		Rowland Hill
The first adhesive postage stamp (1840)		Penny black
The second stamp to be issued		2d blue
The first person to be depicted on a postage stamp		Queen Victoria

Britain's first commemorative stamps were issued in 1924, to commemorate the			British Empire Exhibition
First commoner to appear on a British postage stamp (23 April 1964)			Shakespeare
GPO first issued Christmas stamps			1966
The portrait of the Queen used on UK stamps from 1968 to date – also on UK and Commonwealth coinage until 1984 – was by			Arnold Machin
First actress to appear on a British postage stamp (1982)			Sybil Thorndike
Royal Mail issues self–adhesive stamps for business users			1993
Royal Mail makes self–adhesive stamps available to the general public			2001

Bull's Eye series (1843: the second country to issue stamps that were valid nationally)		Brazil
1c black on magenta, 1856: sold at auction in 2014 for $9.5 million (making it the world's most valuable stamp at that time)		British Guyana
First cartoon character to appear on a US postage stamp (1997)		Bugs Bunny
Famous series of triangular stamps issued in 1853		Cape of Good Hope
The first US Postmaster General (1775–6); appeared on the 5 cent stamp when the US post office issued its first stamps, in 1847 (George Washington was on the 10 cent stamp)		Benjamin Franklin
"Post Office" stamps – 1d red and 2d blue (1847): the first "British stamps" produced outside Britain; a 1d red sold at auction in 2021 for just over €10 million, making it the world's most valuable stamp		Mauritius
Treskilling yellow (1855 misprint – it should have been green; "treskilling" indicates its value (3 skillings))		Sweden
Inverted Jenny (1918 – picture of a plane printed upside down)		USA