Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
Postage stamp (Penny Black)
First issued
1840
The world’s first adhesive postage stamp, issued in Britain.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P577: 1840Q107701, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“konfirmasjoner, dåp, samt julekort . Historikk – internasjonalt Verdens første frimerke («Penny Black») utkom i England 6. mai 1840. Det hadde dronning Victorias portrett, og pålydende verdi var 1 penny. Verdens”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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