Special stamps were issued on April 5th to mark which anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare?
Presentation pack produced by the GPO. On 23 April, the first ‘proper’ pack was issued for a set of stamps celebrating the Shakespeare Festival, to mark the 400th Anniversary of the birth of William Shakespeare. The Presentation Pack was decorative in design and contained information on the stamp designs, the designer and the stamp printer. Early packs were not produced in large numbers and are highly sought after by collectors. The pack for the "Opening of the Forth Road Bridge" stamps has a book price of £400 according to the 2010 Stanley Gibbons "Great Britain Concise Stamp Catalogue", though they sell on
Postage stamps and postal history of Italy new series incorporated rates and colors mandated by the Universal Postal Union. The first stamps with a portrait of Victor Emanuel III appeared in July 1901. The first series of commemorative stamps was issued in April 1910 to mark the 50th anniversary of the Expedition of the Thousand. The world's first airmail stamps were issued in 1917 when Poste italiane overprinted their existing special delivery stamps. Until 1929, all definitive stamps were issued with the portrait of the king or the coat of arms. In April 1929, the so-called "Imperial Series" ("Serie Imperiale") was released, the first definitive series of