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A priceless sheet of Penny Blacks - the world's first ever postage stamp - is inspected before heading abroad for the first time at The Postal Museum on May 25 in London, England.(Photo: Miles Willis, Getty Images for The Postal Museum)
World’s oldest stamps are traveling outside of the United Kingdom for the first time, under lock and key.
The sheet of stamps are coming to New York for the World Stamp Show May 28 through June 4.
These stamps, usually found in The Postal Museum in London,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>aren’t your typical collector’s items. They are the world’s first adhesive postage stamp, the<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Penny Black,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and will journey across the pond by an armed escort in a bomb-proof briefcase. The case has also been fitted with sensors and shock alarms to allow the The Postal Museum<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to keep a close eye on them throughout their journey.
Conservators at The Postal Museum prepare to transport one of the only surviving sheets of the world's first stamp, the Penny Black, in a specially designed, bomb-proof briefcase at The Postal Museum on May 25 in London, England.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Miles Willis, Getty Images for The Postal Museum)
The Penny Blacks, featuring the profile of Queen Victoria, were issued in 1840<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and are considered priceless. The stamps are normally stored in a secure, humidity-controlled, alarmed vault.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The sheet traveling to N.Y. is one of only a handful of Penny Blacks in the world.
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See them in the states at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center of New York, 655 W. 34th St., New York, N.Y. during the show. Viewers going to the World Stamp Show will also be able to see<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the earliest surviving sheet of Two Penny Blue stamps, also coming from The Postal Museum. Introduced two days after the Penny Black, the Two Penny Blue was used for heavier letters.
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