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Date of Issue: April 1, 1857
Design: It featured a portrait of Queen Victoria
Colour: Brown
Value: 6 pence
Inscription: The stamp was inscribed with “Ceylon” and the denomination
This first stamp was printed in the UK by Perkins, Bacon & Co., the same company that printed the famous Penny Black, the world’s first postage stamp.
Did you know we were the first country in Asia to issue postage stamps? These early stamps are now prized by collectors and tell a fascinating story about our colonial past and the beginnings of our postal service. Have you ever seen one?
