Penny Black Black design features in the innovations section of the new British passport in 2015. Also in 2015, the search engine Google marked the 175th anniversary of the postage stamp with a Google doodle of the Penny Black. Penny Black The Penny Black was the world's first adhesive postage stamp used in a public postal system. It was first issued in Great Britain on 1 May 1840, but was not valid for use until 6 May. It features a profile of Queen Victoria. In 1837, British postal rates were high, complex and anomalous. To simplify matters, Sir Rowland Hill proposed an
Penny Black (film) Penny Black (film) Penny Black is a 2015 New Zealand independent comedy film produced by Fiona Jackson, and directed by Joe Hitchcock. Beautiful Penny Black rose to fame as the face of Ubernu, the mega-corporation taking over the world. Penny likes the high life, expensive clothes, and fancy restaurants, but she just became guardian for her sister, Alex. She’s 18 going on 8, always dresses like her favorite superhero, Lapwing, and she’s driving Penny crazy! When she inadvertently sabotages a photoshoot, drives Penny into a public rage, and puts Penny’s modelling career in jeopardy, she panics and heads for Wellington