Penny Penates
The Penny Penates is a postcard that was posted on 14 July 1840 to Fulham in London. It was addressed to the writer and practical joker Theodore Hook, who was probably also its sender and artist. The hand-painted design on the postcard shows an image of post office clerks sitting around a giant ink well. 

The postcard was discovered in 2001 by a stamp dealer while he was examining a stamp collection, and verified by the British Philatelic Association's expert committee as genuine and the world's oldest known postcard. It is also the only known surviving example of a Penny Black stamp, the world's first adhesive postage stamp, used on a postcard. It was sold at auction in 2002 for £31,750 (US$44,300), the most ever paid for a postcard.
Q192425
postcard
Concept
Q3367868
Fulham
LOC
Q2117649
Theodore Hook
PER
Q96373998
British Philatelic Association
ORG
Q107701
Penny Black
MISC
Q92170625
Penny Penates
Concept
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14 July 1840
DATE
2001-01-01T00:00:00Z^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#dateTime
2001
DATE
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2002
DATE
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31,750
NUMBER
+44.300^^http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#decimal
44,300
NUMBER
instance of