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Asking price: €2.95m Agent: Sherry FitzGerald (01) 490 7433 The Penny Black, the world’s first prepaid postage stamp, sparked a 19th century communications revolution bigger than Facebook. But instead of being glued to phones, the Victorians were stuck fast to their writing desks, sometimes scratching out 10 letters a day. First launched in London and next in Dublin in 1840, the little black sticker with a cameo of the young Queen Victoria, enabled cheap access to a refined postal service to the degree that the resulting letter-writing craze required 12 collections daily to process the post it generated. But letter writing didn’t escape the Victorian penchant for sticking starchy societal etiquettes to everything. Complex rules were decreed for paper types, thickness, colours and styles for different types of letters; from introduction notes to love letters, to letters of congratulation, business exchanges, invitations, mourning correspondence or even your bog standard ‘

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