Can anyone tell where stamps came from and how they came about?

The prototype of the stamp first appeared in the mid-17th century. In 1653, King Louis XIV of France gave the post of Paris region to Vera Ye. Vera Ye set up a "small post office" in Paris and a post office box on the street to collect and send letters every day.

Vera leaves a letter to the user using a label called a postage certificate.

The sender of the stamp places the stamp on the envelope or on the envelope, writes the date of the letter, and places the letter in the mailbox. When the letter is received at the post office, it tears off the postage card and sends the mail to the addressee. The label equivalent to this postage payment certificate can be said to be the predecessor of the postage stamp.

A stamp is a postage certificate issued by the postal administration for the delivery of mail. A form in which the sender pays for postal services, the sender affixes a stamp to a letter, which is then stamped (usually postmarked) by the post office to prove that the sender has paid all or part of the delivery fee before the mail is sent. For ease of use, stamps are usually perforated around the perimeter and covered with a layer of adhesive backing.

The square inch of stamps often reflects the history, technology, economy, culture, customs, natural features and other characteristics of a country or region, which makes stamps have collection value in addition to postal value. Stamps are also an important source of revenue for some countries or regions**. The hobby of collecting stamps is called stamp collecting.

The world's first postage stamp was the British Black Penny. Stamp issuance is managed by the state and is often a symbol of national sovereignty or even an important source of revenue for certain countries, such as Liechtenstein. Stamps are collectibles, and philately has become one of the most important trends in the world.

On May 6, 1840, the world's first postage stamps were born.

The earliest postage stamps in China were the Dalong stamps of the Qing Dynasty. In order to commemorate the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening up, the large-scale stamp exhibition "China - Great Changes" opened at the University of Leuven in Belgium on the 11th, and the carefully selected 188 stamps allowed the audience to relive the historical changes brought by the reform and opening up to China.

History – Before the advent of stamps in 1840, there were many forms of payment for mail. In 1653, Jean-James Léold-de de Villier, a tenant of the Paris Post Office, invented a type called a "payment stamp", which was a paper-like toll slip similar to a postage stamp and was worth one sus. The back of the slip is not sticky and needs to be attached to the letter with a clip or rope strap.

At present, such payment tickets are rare to find, and the status of their transmission to the present day is unknown.

In the United Kingdom, there are similar stamp predecessors. From 1680 onwards, William Dukwael and Robert Murray, merchants at London's Finney Post Office, developed a new system of uniform postage rates, and their practice of postmarking senders' mail was so popular that the Duke of York's monopoly on the postal sector was in jeopardy.

The first two stamps were also designed by Earl Roland Hill. He received thousands of designs for it, but they were all discarded by him. The portrait on the stamp is from an 1837 commemorative coin that he particularly liked.

Stamps with a 1p face value are on a black background, while a 2p face is on a blue background. Henry Coba made the engravings for it, and the printing was done by Perkins, Bacon Perth Printing House.

The black penny stamps also have their drawbacks, the black postmarks on the stamps are not easy to read and can be easily washed off, so some people take advantage of loopholes to use them repeatedly. For this reason, the subsequent 1p stamps were printed in red, and on February 10, 1841, the red penny stamp was born.

The most slippery form of stamps appeared as early as the mid-17th century. In 1653, King Louis XIV of France granted Veraille the property rights to open a postal service in the Paris area. Veraille set up a "small post office" in Paris, and also set up post office boxes on the streets to collect and deliver letters every day.

Veraille uses a label called a postage card to send letters to users.

The sender puts the postage receipt slip on or affixes it to the envelope, writes the date of mailing, and places the letter in the letterbox. After receiving the letter, the post office tears up the postage certificate and delivers the letter to the addressee. This label of postage payment certificate can be said to be the predecessor of stamps.

This label is torn off as it is used, and it has not been handed down.

The birth of stamps is due to the change of the object of postage collection: the postage is reduced, the weight is charged, and the postage is paid first. Thus communication has entered the homes of ordinary people. Stamps are a form of payment paid by the sender for the postal service.

1. The origin of stamps: Dating back to 1840, this is the time when the world's first stamp was born. Before the advent of stamps, there were actually many things that resembled stamps or played the role of stamps.

The invention of stamps made communication more convenient, fast and safe. From black pennies to postage stamps, it has made it easier for people everywhere to communicate, and Hill is deeply remembered as an outstanding contributor to stamps, and has issued many stamps with Hill as the theme.

2, the history of Chinese stamps: China's first stamp, born in 1878, when the Qing Dynasty ** in Shanghai, Yantai, Niuzhuang, and other five places to set up postal agencies, that year Shanghai Customs acres of rotten potatoes out of the book printed with the dragon as the picture of the Department of three stamps. In the center of the stamp is a golden dragon with claws and water waves, which is the more traditional image of the dragon soaring through the clouds and fog than the swift man in China.

This set of China's first set of stamps is known as "Dalong stamps" or "Customs Dalong" in the stamp industry. The material of this set of Dalong stamps is also different from today, it is made of copper and hand-carved by a carver.