A Hrodna resident sells a 19th-century postage stamp. Asks for 1400 rubles
Here's what makes it unique.
An advertisement for the sale of the first postage stamp of the Russian Empire appeared on Av.by. A resident of Hrodna is asking 1400 rubles for it, Blizko.by writes.
The collector assures that this is a "legendary and extremely valuable philatelic object".
The stamp was introduced into circulation by a circular of the Postal Department of the Russian Empire dated December 10, 1857 (December 22 according to the new style). In the same month, the postage stamps went on sale and began to be used in some governorates.
Official universal use of the stamps throughout the empire, with the exception of the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, and Siberia, began on January 1, 1858 (January 13 according to the new style).
The dot cancellation stamp No. 240 indicates that the stamp was cancelled at the Palangen postal station (now Palanga in Lithuania).
On the reverse side of the stamp there is an expert stamp Pfenninger in the name of Franz Pfenninger, a well-known German expert in philately, as well as a watermark in the form of the number 1.
As a bonus, the advertiser offers several Russian commemorative stamps.
The world's first postage stamps appeared in the 1830s. In the Russian Empire, they officially began to be used only in 1858. Since Belarus was part of this state at that time, the first postage stamp of the Russian Empire can be considered the first also on Belarusian territory.
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