Who Invented The First Adhesive Postage Stamp

I have no idea about that one but I would certainly like to meet the guy who first invented the SELF-adhesive stamp. I would certainly give him a piece of my mind...

Just to prolong the Chalmers/Hill thing. The Royal Mail produced a booklet of stamps called Postal History 3. It had Chalmers on the front and a history of his postal works on the back.

"In 1837, he submitted some examples of gummed labels to Robert Wallace, the MP for Greenock. Thus James Chalmers produced the first essays of adhesive postage stamps, the forerunner of the Penny Black."

The problem with Chalmers was that he did not call them "stamps"... presumably because at that time a STAMP was the calcellation and not what you bought to put on letters.