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Good quality stationery decorated with fine art images from museums and galleries or decorative motifs from the past 500 years. Discover notebooks, record books, pens and magnets both decorative and practical for your desk. The ancients used papyrus and similar plants to create documents and in the 10th century cotton paper from the Far East came to the West. A great advance in writing material coming in the 14th century with the introduction of paper made from linen rags. Prior to 1840 letters were delivered by courier, coach or horse rider. The receiver of the letter had to pay on its receipt and the cost was dependant on the number of pages and distance travelled. In May 1840 Great Britain introduced the first prepaid stamp nationwide postal delivery service, with the Penny Black stamp (portrait of the young Queen Victoria) for letters under half an ounce and the Twopenny Blue stamp for letters over.

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