Reginald M. Phillips was a real estate entrepreneur, philanthropist, and philatelist who curated and donated an assortment of 19th-century British stamps to the museum. The highlight of this collection, known as the Reginald M. Phillips Collection or the Phillips Collection, is the world’s earliest first day cover (FDC; an envelope featuring a new stamp and postmark of the first day of issue) of the first adhesive stamp, called the Penny Black, issued in 1840.
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