When was the first commemorative stamp issued?
First COMMEMORATIVE STAMP
The first COMMEMORATIVE STAMP was the 2 pfennig green and carmine pictorial, issued by the Frankfurt-am-Main Privat-Brief-Verkehr (District Post) to commemorate the 25th Anniversary of the German Federal and Jubilee Shooting Contest, Frankfurt, July 1887.
The first commemorative stamp in the British Empire and the first issued by any national postal service was the New South Wales is Centenary Issue of January 1888.
In Britain the 1 d and 1÷ d pictorials bearing the King’s head, the Wembley Lion and the words ‘British Empire Exhibition’, were issued at a special post office in the Exhibition grounds on 23 April 1924.
