Week 4 - Looking At Exsiting Stamps...

These are our everyday stamps with the queens head on...

i really lik this stamp that i came across because its mixing design with stamps, as it is a really well known chair and is much more intresting than the queens head :)

History Of Stamps...

• Before the use of adhesive paper stamps, letters were hand stamped or postmarked with ink. Postmarks were the invention of Henry Bishop and were at first called 'Bishop mark' after the inventor. Bishop marks were first used in 1661 at the London General Post Office. They marked the day and month the letter was mailed.




• Rowland Hill invented the adhesive postage stamp in 1837 first started to take a serious interest in postal reforms in 1835.
  
  
  

Stylized stamp with its main parts: 1. the image2. the perforations3. the value4. the country