Victoria, Half-Length Portrait, 1d Pink
Australia · 1850 · 1d
This stamp features a half-length portrait of Queen Victoria, engraved by Thomas Ham. It is printed in a distinctive pink or rose shade on yellowish wove paper. As the first postage stamp issued by the colony of Victoria, it is a key piece of Australian philatelic history.
Issued in 1850, this was the first postage stamp of the Colony of Victoria, which had just been separated from New South Wales. It marks the beginning of Victoria's independent postal system.
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Engraved
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