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Date of production
1841 (1841)–1879 (1879)
Printer
Perkins, Bacon & Co
Perforation
1841: none
1850: 16 gauge (experimental)
1854: 16 gauge
1855: 14 gauge
Depicts
Queen Victoria (1837–1901)
Face value
1d
A perforated Penny Red with letters in four corners and plate 148, therefore printed 1871 or laterThe plate number, 148 in this case, may be found in the margin of the stamp.
The Penny Red was a British postage stamp, issued in 1841. It succeeded the Penny Black and continued as the main 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 colour was changed from black to red because of difficulty in seeing a cancellation mark on the Penny Black; a black cancellation mark was readily visible on a Penny Red.[1]
^"1840 2d and 1841 2d a plating aid". Steven Allen British and Colonial Stamps. Archived from the original on 29 June 2014. Retrieved 5 May 2013.
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first issue on 12 July 1881 until 1901. It superseded the short-lived Penny Venetian Red because the Customs and Inland Revenue Act of 1881 necessitated new...
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were to replace the Penny Black and the original 1840 issue of the Two pence Blue. The decision to change the black stamp to red had already been made...
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hard to see. So, from 1841, the stamps were printed in a brick-red colour. The PennyReds continued in use for decades with about 21 billion being produced...
Nissen on the plating of the Penny Black and the PennyRed and was the co-author with Nissen of The Plating of the Penny Black Postage Stamps of Great...
to the Penny Black and PennyRed, bordered by 'Postage Three Half Pence' and numbered in the corners. It was printed in rose-red and lake-red colours...
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perform. The 1959 Hollywood film The Five Pennies, the film biography of Red Nichols, starring Danny Kaye as Red Nichols, was loosely based on Nichols' life...
abdication ended all design work despite essays having been made. The two-pennyred stamp project of Australia used a photograph of the king in uniform. The...
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