Johann Peter Haseney (1812,
Mehlis,
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg () was a duchy ruled by the Ernestine branch of the House of Wettin in today's Thuringia, Germany. The extinction of the line in 1825 led to a major re-organisation of the Thuringian states.
History
In 1640 the sons of the l ...
– 1869, Munich) was a German engraver.
Haseney came to
Munich
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in his young years, where he worked as an engraver with the Seitz company. There he made different designs for stamps. He engraved the first German stamp, the
One Kreuzer black
The One kreuzer black, or Schwarzer Einser, was the first postage stamp issued in the Kingdom of Bavaria, and the first anywhere in the territories making up modern Germany. It was issued on 1 November 1849. 832,500 copies were printed on handmad ...
(''Schwarzer Einser'') in the Kingdom of
Bavaria
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, issued on November 1, 1849.
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1869 deaths
1812 births
People from Zella-Mehlis
People from Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg
German engravers
German stamp designers
19th-century engravers