🌎 Country

Victoria

📅 Year

1850

💰 Denomination

1 pence

📮 Issue type

Definitive

🖼 Topic

Royalty

Victoria's first stamps appeared on 9 January 1850, only nine days after those of New South Wales. They were engraved and lithographed in Melbourne by Thomas Ham and show a half-length portrait of the young Queen seated with orb and sceptre, which is why collectors know them as the Half-Lengths. The 1d, like this one, was printed in shades of red.

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