The first order for Antigua's own stamps was for a 6p stamp to pay for the cost of mailing letters from Antigua to the UK. A batch of 8 thousand postage stamps was sent on July 1, 1862 by the Perkins Bacon printing house. The stamps arrived and went into circulation around August 1862. In 1863, a one-penny stamp was issued. The design of these stamps is based on Edward Henry Corbould's head of Queen Victoria and was engraved by Charles Henry Jeans.