Thursday, March 2, 2017

HAND STAMP-A SHORT HISTORY

HAND STAMP


Hand Stamp

In every country,hand stamps had their own special evolution.The oldest hand stamp comes from Venice and dates back to 1435This hand stamp was not printed in ink on the cover,but was embossed on the letter .Later on,Sir Rowland Hill invented postage hand stamp in 1840.In ancient times,the records of forwarded letters had been kept,so the same became a necessity in modern times as well.Hand stamp is basically for imprinting a mark or a design by hand.These are available with individual characters or complete sets.Postal hand stamps were so successful and every postal service in the world accepted them in due course.It is useful for labels applied to large or bulky items,where managing the product is difficult.It is used in offices for many purposes.And it's to indicate pre-payment of the cost of mailing.

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