Today we can offer you the opportunity to own a complete example of the very stamps that propelled Stanley Gibbons from a small shop in Plymouth to a position of pre-eminence within the philatelic world that would mean that the name would be recognised throughout the collecting world. Those stamps were the world-famous Cape Triangular - and today you can guarantee your complete set of these breathtaking issues, which changed the world of philatelic forever.
With the advent of the limited self-government that was bestowed by Britain on the Cape in 1853, came the arrival of the territory's first postage stamps - what have since become known simply as The Cape Triangular.
Not only were these the first ever stamps to have been issued anywhere within the continent of Africa, they were also the first ever triangular stamps to be issued anywhere in the world - a true philatelic first. Only 13 years previously the Penny Black had become the world's first postal stamp - and just over a decade later, these triangular stamps were quite literally changing the shape of the postage stamp.
This set of triangular stamps - the stamps that propelled the fortunes of Stanley Gibbons - are to this day renowned the world over by philatelists and it's understandable to see why. Magnificent in their creation - the world before had never seen such invention on the postage stamp.
And now is your opportunity, over 140 years since they were last issued, to secure your complete collection of Cape Triangular Stamps. Some of the most widely collected stamps in the world, every collection, given the opportunity, should feature at least one example of these groundbreaking issues.