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Candidate designs:
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Name: Penny Black
Type: stamp
Date: 1840


Events/Issues:
150th Anniversary of Penny Black / Stamp World London 90 Burkina Faso 1990
150th Anniversary of the Penny Black / 500th Anniversary of Thurn and Taxis Postal Service Guyana 1990
150th Anniversary of the Penny Black Kiribati 1990
Penny Black 150th Tokelau 1990
150th Anniversary of Penny Black / LONDON '90 Tokelau 1991
175th Anniversary of the Penny Black Great Britain 2015
Penny Black introduction 1840
150th Anniversary of the Penny Black / London 90 North Korea 1989
— Penny Black 150th - Albania, Antigua, Australia, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Chile, Cook Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, German Democratic Republic, Ghana, Gibraltar, Great Britain, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Hungary, India, Maldive Islands, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Swaziland, Vanuatu, Barbuda (27) 1990
-1991
150th Anniversary of First Postage Stamp Botswana 1990
— 150th Anniversary of the Penny Black - Costa Rica, Marshall Islands, Mexico, Micronesia, Nevis, St. Vincent, El Salvador, Surinam, Turks & Caicos Islands, Tuvalu, Uganda, Peru (+2) (12) 1990
-1992
— 150th Anniversary of Penny Black - Czechoslovakia, Gambia, Liechtenstein, Monaco, Montserrat, Paraguay (6) 1990
penny black 150th Norway 1990
Penny Black 150th / London 90 Russia 1990
155th Anniversary of the First Postage Stamp GuineaBissau 2005 (+10)
— 175th Anniversary of the First Postage Stamp - Azerbaijan, Russia (2) 2015
First Postage Stamp 1840
170th Anniversary of the First Postage Stamp Palau 2010
Penny Black start 1840
Penny Black 150th b Mozambique 1990
— 175th Anniversary of the Penny Black - Malaysia, Malta, Montserrat (3) 2015
— 180th Anniversary of the Penny Black - Chad, Djibouti, Liberia (3) 2020

Appearing in designs:
covers with Penny Black Switzerland 9/3/2015 100(c) issue=175 Years Of Stamps
mail steamer off St Peter Port 1840 & Penny Black Guernsey 5/3/1990 14p issue=Penny Black 150th
medal portrait chosen for the Penny Black Nevis 5/3/1990 15c issue=150th Anniversary of the Penny Black
Negative Image of Penny Black St. Vincent Grenadines 5/3/1990 $5 issue=Stamp World London 90 b
Penny Black & 5 reis stamp Mozambique 5/3/1990 1000m issue=Penny Black 150th b
Penny Black & Rowland Hill Falkland Islands 8/28/1979 25p issue=Rowland Hill death 100th
Penny Black & Rowland Hill & Bolivia #1 Bolivia 5/13/1990 4b issue=Penny Black 150th
Penny Black (1940) (5 stamps of Mexico, 1940)
Penny Black (1966) Rhodesia 5/2/1966 1sh6p issue=Rhopex
Penny Black (1979) (4 stamps, Anguilla & 3 others, 1979)
Penny Black (1990 German Democratic Republic) German Democratic Republic 5/8/1990 20pf issue=Penny Black 150th
Penny Black (1990 Norway) Norway 4/9/1990 5.00(k) issue=penny black 150th
Penny Black (1990 Pitcairn Islands) Pitcairn Islands 10/15/1990 $1.30 issue=50th Anniversary of the Pitcairn Islands Stamps
Penny Black (1990 Sierra Leone) (3 stamps of Sierra Leone, 1990)
Penny Black (1990 Surinam) Surinam 5/4/1990 200c issue=150th Anniversary of the Penny Black
Penny Black (1990) (9 stamps, Botswana & 3 others, 1990)
Penny Black (1991) Tokelau 10/5/1991 $3 issue=150th Anniversary of Penny Black / LONDON '90
Penny Black (1996) Bhutan 12/17/1996 140nu
Penny Black (2008) Montserrat 7/31/2008 $2.75 issue=Early Postal History
Penny Black (2015 Germany) Germany 9/1/2015 62+30(c) issue=Stamp Day 2015
Penny Black (2015 Isle of Man) Isle of Man 2/17/2015 1p issue=175 years of Penny Black
Penny Black - 1840 Uniform Postage Great Britain 9/15/2011 76p issue=House of Hanover
Penny Black - World's 1st Stamp Gambia 6/24/2004 20d issue=Rare and Famous Postage Stamps
Penny Black 1970 Great Britain 9/18/1970 5d issue=Philympia 1970
Penny Black in strip Estonia 11/13/2015 0.55€ issue=175th Ann. of the World's First Postage Stamp
Penny Black Rowland Hill Belize 9/26/1984 65c issue=AUSIPEX '84
Penny Black under magnifying glass Russia 4/23/2015 26.50r issue=175th Anniversary of the First Postage Stamp
Penny Black with Maltese Cross Postmark Barbados 5/8/1979 45c issue=Rowland Hill death 100th
Perot Stamp & Penny Black Bermuda 2/25/1980 8c issue=Rowland Hill death 100th
Rowland Hill & Penny Black (2 stamps, Bahamas & Cuba, 1979-1990)
Rowland Hill holding Penny Black Chile 6/12/1990 250p issue=Penny Black 150th
Rowland Hill, Penny Black, Tuvalu No 17 Tuvalu 8/20/1979 40c issue=Rowland Hill death 100th
Sir Rowland Hill & Penny Black (1990) Monaco 3/15/1990 5.00fr issue=150th Anniversary of Penny Black
Sir Rowland Hill & Penny Black (1995) Great Britain 9/5/1995 25p issue=Pioneers of Communications
Sir Rowland Hill and Penny Black (3 stamps, Burundi & 2 others, 1979-1990)
Sir Rowland Hill with Penny Black (4 stamps of Aitutaki, 1979)
Sir Rowland Hill, Penny Black, Cuba Issues of 1855 and 1899 Cuba 11/28/1940 10c issue=100th anniversary of The 1st Adhesive Postage Stamps
steamship & Penny Black Cuba 5/3/1990 1p issue=London 90

Synonyms:
Great Britain Penny Black
Great Britain Penny Black (3 stamps, Antigua & Barbuda, 1979-1980, 2 are ovpts)
One Penny Black
One Penny Black (2 stamps of Great Britain, 2015-2016)
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