Illustration of a historical stamp for learning, shown at screen size. Not valid for postage.
How to read it
AUSTRALIA, a map and a kangaroo.
- 1AUSTRALIA
- 2ONE PENNY
- Inscription
- AUSTRALIA POSTAGE · ONE PENNY
- Meaning
- AUSTRALIA across the top.
- Issued by
- Commonwealth of Australia
- Today
- Australia Flag of Australia
- Year
- 1913. First issued 1913.
- Made by
- Blamire Young (design, died 1935)
One fact
Australia’s first national stamp was the red penny Kangaroo and Map, used for about a year before a King George V design replaced it.
Source and public-domain rule
Creators died more than 70 years ago. Designer died 1935. Copyright lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years, counted from 1 January of the year after death. Every named designer and engraver of the stamp died before 1 January 1956; any contributor who was never named counts as anonymous, whose term is 70 years from publication, and the stamp was published before 1956. Legal sources: Directive 2006/116/EC, Art. 1(1) life + 70 years; Art. 1(3) anonymous works 70 years from publication; Art. 7(1) comparison of terms for works from outside the EU; Art. 8 terms run from 1 January, Switzerland, Norway.
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