September 2nd, 2009
Orgins of Stamps
I remember first discovering Singapore for my self as a Young child sorting through stamps in my stamp collection. There was an engraved stamp in red showing Queen Elizabeth II on a stamp from Singapore. I thought that was strange since Great Britain was all way round the other side of the world from Singapore. I learned a lot that summer I started collecting stamps. The miniature works of art issued from everywhere in the world and used to send things all over. These stamps featured images of people, buildings, flowers, animals, plants, fish, birds, designs hey commemorated events, places and occurrences. Everything seemed to be documented on a stamp. The origin of the postage stamp is in Great Britain in the mid 1800s a stamp selling for one penny featuring the profile of Queen Victoria was the first stamp to be issued. Now known as the One Penny Black these stamps had to be cut by hand and glue applied to them as the innovation of perforations and pre gummed stamps was years away. While staying at best singapore hotels there was a convention of stamp collector with an accompanying exhibit of stamps front he beginning to current time. I remembered the stamps i had. Some were printed over in bold words letters or numbers indicating new rulers, regimes and inflationary times. History was played out on these little works of art. A countries rulers could be followed by the changing images on the stamps issued by the country over time Big events, elections and other commemorations are found on stamps. The process of printing began with engraved stamps usually in one color sometime sin in two to more modern offset printing techniques that make full color reproduction on the stamps possible. The stamps chronicled the good and the bad, changes and stanchions and all events in between in the history of the countries issuing them.
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