During the 1920s, Frank Munson, of the Munson Steamship Line, bought a crescent shaped beach-front property on Hog Island, across from Nassau. He bought installed cabanas for guests and named the placed Paradise Beach.
By the 1930s the beach became popular with America’s winter leisure class. A ferry service would transit passengers to Paradise Beach from Nassau. A small club offered food, drinks and umbrellas.
Huntington Hartford, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (A&P supermarket) heir, arrived on Hog Island in 1959. Hartford bought Hog Island from Axel Wenner-Gren and changed the name to Paradise Island.
Details
- Designer:
- Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England
- Process: Recess
- Paper:
- Watermark: Multiple Script CA
- Perf: 11 x 11.5 (comb)
- Plates: 1 (Reddish-Lilac), 1 (Black) : 1a (Reddish-Lilac), 1a (Black) [Left pane : Right pane]
- Sheet: Printed in two panes of 120, separated by a gutter. Guillotined through gutter into two single panes (R10 x 6).
- Quantity:
- Reprints:
- 14 April 1955
- 21 November 1956 (Deep Reddish-Lilac & Black)
- 19 February 1958
- 8 April 1959
- 29 March 1960
- 7 February 1961
- 23 January 1962
- 8 January 1963 (Deep Reddish-Lilac & Black)
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