🌎 Country

Cape of Good Hope

📅 Year

1853

💰 Denomination

1d

📮 Issue type

Definitive

🖼 Topic

Allegory & Mythology

The world's first triangular stamps. The shape is said to have helped postal clerks who could not read tell local letters from overseas ones. The seated figure is Hope, resting on an anchor.

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