At present, China "First Post" is recognized as a famous "Dalong" stamp by the world philatelic community. But who made this priceless stamp is still inconclusive, which has become an unsolved case in the history of stamps.
1878, 15 August (the specific date of issue has not been recorded so far, and it is generally believed that the earliest date of issue of Dalong stamps is between July 24th, 0878+August, 0878 1 day), and the customs of the Qing government piloted postal services, and the first set of stamps in China, namely Dalong stamps, was issued for the first time, totaling three. The main picture is the symbol of the Qing royal family. This stamp was issued 38 years later than the world's first stamp, black penny, but
Still worthy of pride.
Some people think that Dragon was written by a German named Feral. Because this man is indeed the first stamp designer with historical records in the history of China, and he did design several sets of stamps.
Tide stamps But he is by no means the designer of Dalong stamps. There is a simple reason. Feral joined the work in 1892, and Dalong stamp came out as early as 14. At that time, Feral was only a teenager of 18 years old.
Feral, a talented stamp designer. He once designed the first set of commemorative stamps in China-the longevity commemorative stamp of Cixi, and later the Panlong stamp. Feral's life is legendary. He deliberately used his position to design various "variant", "variant" and "staggered" stamps, and now each one is valuable. But his professional ethics is indeed controversial.
Another legend holds that the designer of "Dragon" is Mars, an American employee of Shanghai Customs. But then a friend of Mars, Bok, published his autograph on July 25th, 1929.
Letter. The letter said, "China stamps were first issued by me, which was a complete misunderstanding. Regarding the issue and design of this early stamp, you can learn all the details in the China trade news bulletin of 1905 ... "According to the clues of Mars, people found a sentence in this report:" The first set of stamps was engraved by domestic technicians. "
In fact, if we look closely, we will find that the view that "China people designed dragon stamps" can indeed be confirmed in the dragon stamps and their patterns. Chinese characters such as "Daqing, Post Office, Fenyin" on the Dalong stamp (left) are beautifully written, while English words "China, Kanda Lins" and Arabic numerals "1, 2, 5" are clumsy, which are probably described by people who don't understand English letters in China. On the contrary, the Chinese characters on the Xiaolong stamp (right) are crooked, while the English and Arabic numerals are very neat and beautiful, probably written by foreigners who don't know Chinese.