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Postage Stamps First World Exhibited in Bandung

Museum Pos Indonesia in Bandung city collected more than 200 thousand stamps, including the world's first postage stamp picture The Penny Black which was published in England in 1840.

The Penny Black
Museum is located not far from London's Geological Museum has exhibits showing stamps and first published in Indonesia, the stamps of King William, published in 1864.

In addition there are also other collections of stamps in the form of Postal equipment, such as scales letter box mailbox, pengatar postal uniforms, postal stamp and other.

Every day - a museum, built in 1931 with initial name Museum of Post Telephone Telegraph was visited by about 100 people.

Most foreign tourists visiting from Japan and the Netherlands, the average interest with a collection of stamps and postal equipment from the old Dutch and the Japanese occupation era.

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