Nazwano go Penny Black czyli czarna jednopensówka, a na znaczku widniał portret młodej królowej Wiktorii.
The story of the Penny Black, the world's first-ever adhesive postage stamp, begins with a man named Rowland Hill who triggered a period of vast postal reform.
Hill, an English teacher, inventor and social reformer, calculated that it made more financial sense to price deliveries by weight.
Until then, the cost of delivery of a letter was paid by the recipient - and the price was dependent on the number of miles travelled and the size of the letter.
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Kojarzy mi się ta nazwa z imieniem i nazwiskiem :) Tak jak po włosku znaczek to "francobollo" no i już skojarzenie mam Franco Bollo :) Znowu imię i nazwisko :D
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