🍾🥂❄️☃️🎄🎁🎅CHRISTMAS SPECIALS🎅🎁🎄☃️⛄❄️🥂🍾

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 World's First Christmas Stamp

                  Although it does not bear much resemblance to a Christmas stamp in the way we would expect today, most philatelists agree that the world’s first Christmas stamp is the Canadian Map Stamp of 1898.

                   In 1898, a number of countries across the British Empire agreed on a uniform penny postage rate across the British Empire, effective from 25th December 1898. To mark the occasion the Canada Post Office planned to issue a 2 cent commemorative stamp on the same day, however due to public pressure it was brought forward to 7th December.

                   The stamp features Mercartor’s map with the British Empire highlighted in red, the inscription ‘Xmas 1898’ and the line “WE HOLD A VASTER EMPIRE THAN HAS BEEN” extracted from “A Song of Empire” composed by Sir Lewis Morris.

                   An incredibly popular issue for collectors

                   Christmas stamps are some of the most popular issues in the collecting world. And as you would expect, historic stamps that are a first of their kind are a real hit with collectors. These two things combined makes the world’s first Christmas Stamp one of the most in demand historic stamps.

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