A Stamp Without a Country Name

The very first postage stamp appeared in 1840. It was nicknamed ‘the Penny Black’, and it was sufficient to send a half-ounce package. Before that stamp, the sender didn’t pay anything for dispatching mail, and it was up to the postal services to collect the fees from the recipient. You must’ve noticed the potential complications with that system. That’s how the English stamp came into the world without a country name printed on it. This is still the case, and English stamps are identifiable primarily by their royal cameos.

Thus the United Kingdom remains the only country in the world to omit its name on postage stamps; the monarch’s image signifies the United Kingdom as the country of origin.

When you’re the first to create something, you get to enjoy such privileges.