Trinidad and Tobago Postage Due Stamp

Trinidad and Tobago · 1923 · 1d

This is a postage due stamp, designed to indicate the amount of postage that was underpaid by the sender and needed to be collected from the recipient. The design is simple and functional, featuring a large numeral '1' and the denomination 'ONE PENNY' within an ornate frame, with 'TRINIDAD & TOBAGO' inscribed at the top and 'POSTAGE DUE' at the bottom.

Issued in 1923, this was the first postage due stamp for the combined colony of Trinidad and Tobago. Such stamps were a common feature of postal systems worldwide during this period to regularize the collection of insufficient postage.