No artist accompanied either expedition, so the source engravings on which the stamp scenes are based were created years later. Emile Ulm’s Blue Mountain Pioneers was published in the 1880 Christmas supplement of the Sydney Mail, and is presumably his impression of the party reaching the western-most point of its…
View More Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers – 60c Blue Mountains Crossing 1813Author: thedigitalphilatelist
Australia Philately: 2012 Inland Explorers
This stamp issue commemorates two anniversaries: in 2012 it is 150 years since John McDouall Stuart returned from his overland crossing of Australia; and in 2013 it will be 200 years since Gregory Blaxland, William Lawson and William Charles Wentworth crossed the Blue Mountains. In 1813, Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth…
View More Australia Philately: 2012 Inland ExplorersBahamas Philately: Hannau-Robinson Inc (116800 Series)
Details Publisher: Hannau-Robinson Inc., 50 East 81 Street, N.Y., N.Y. 10028 Distributor: Printer: Koppel Color, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA Process: Photographer: Year: 1971 Series: 116800
View More Bahamas Philately: Hannau-Robinson Inc (116800 Series)Bahamas Philately: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc (109200 Series)
Details Publisher: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc., Miami Beach, Florida Printer: Koppel Color, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA Year: c.1969 Series: 109200
View More Bahamas Philately: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc (109200 Series)Bahamas Philately: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc (102200 Series)
Details Publisher: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc., Miami Beach, Florida Printer: Koppel Color, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA Year: c.1969 Series: 102200 Series
View More Bahamas Philately: Hannau-Robinson Color Productions Inc (102200 Series)Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (DT-74800-C Series – Type A)
Details Publisher: Distributor: Printer: Dexter Press Inc, West Nyack, New York Process: Photographer: Year: 1971 Series: DT–74800-C (Type A) For Sun & Fun Visit The Bahamas
View More Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (DT-74800-C Series – Type A)Bahamas Philately: Printed in USA (Emerald Beach Hotel)
Details Publisher: Printer: Printed in USA Year: 1954 Series:
View More Bahamas Philately: Printed in USA (Emerald Beach Hotel)Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (DT-80000-B Series – Type B)
Details Publisher: Ernie’s Studio & Camera Center Ltd, Freeport, Grand Bahamas Distributor: Printer: Dexter Press Inc, West Nyack, New York Process: Photographer: Larry Witt Year: 1964 Series: Dexter Supreme (DT-80000-B – Type B)
View More Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (DT-80000-B Series – Type B)Bahamas Philately: The 1960’s
The real stimulus for tourism in the Bahamas started around the early 1960s. Cuba was one of the few competitive tourism markets in the Caribbean that posed a threat to the Bahamas in the early days. Their tourism sector collapsed in the wake of the Cuban Revolution and the US…
View More Bahamas Philately: The 1960’sBahamas Philately: The 1970’s
One year after Independence celebrations, Prime Minister Lynden Pindling and the PLP government were facing critical level economic challenges. The economy had begun to stall, hotel unions were threatening strikes, and there were problems with the dollar. For tourism, there was wariness with the newly independent Bahamas and it faced…
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