Penny Blue Penny Blue The Penny Blue is frequently mistaken for a postage stamp of Britain. It is from a series of proof impressions which were made at the time Rowland Hill was looking at the new colours which were to be used for the stamps which 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, and at the same time the colour of the ink used for the cancellations was to be changed from red to black. Although it had been
Penny Post except for Australia and New Zealand, who would not benefit from it until 1905. In 1908 it was extended to America. The Penny Post rate ended in Great Britain in 1918. In the United States, Spaulding's Penny Post operated in Buffalo, New York from 1847 to 1850. Davis' Penny Post operated in Baltimore, Maryland for several weeks of February 1856, leaving behind a handful of rare stamps. The Penny Post is the journal of the Carriers and Locals Society, and was also the original name of "The Cincinnati Post". Penny Post The Penny Post is any one of several postal