Details Series: 1971 Definitive Series (New Values) Subject: Hibiscus Designer: Elyse Wasile Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: C.A. Block Perf: 14.5 x 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1A (Green) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Red) 1A (Black) 1B (Green) 1B (Yellow) 1B (Red) 1B (Black) 1A (Green) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Red)…
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Bahamas Philately: 1971 Definitive Series (New Values) – 6c Hawksbill Turtle
Details Series: 1971 Definitive Series (New Values) Subject: Hawksbill Turtle Designer: Elyse Wasile Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd Process: Lithography Paper: Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA Perf: 14.5 x 14 (comb) Cylinders: 1A (Brown) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Orange) 1A (Green) 1A (Black) 1B (Brown) 1B (Yellow) 1B (Orange)…
View More Bahamas Philately: 1971 Definitive Series (New Values) – 6c Hawksbill TurtleBahamas Philately: Silver Sands Hotel
The Silver Sands Hotel opened in 1971 and was located in Freeport, Grand Bahama. It was a 144 room luxury apartment hotel. It was air-conditioned with fully equipped kitchens, bathrooms and a private balconies, and wall-to-wall carpeting. In 1975, the hotel was purchased for $1.5m by Iverugie Investments Ltd.…
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Bahamas Philately: Sonesta Beach Hotel & Golf Club
The Sonesta Beach Hotel & Golf on Cable Beach, Nassau, was opened in the summer of 1971. Construction of the 400 room luxury hotel began in 1970. The hotel was operated by the newly named Sonesta International Hotels Corporation (formerly Hotel Corporation of America) who were also operating the Balmoral…
View More Bahamas Philately: Sonesta Beach Hotel & Golf ClubRhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 25c Geological map of Rhodesia
The 25 cent stamp is a simplified reproduction of the geological map of Rhodesia. The distribution of the granitic rocks that are exposed over approximately half of the country is shown, the granites being depicted in red and the related rocks in orange. The major gold belts are shown in…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 25c Geological map of RhodesiaRhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 15c Granite
The 15 cent stamp is a photograph of a thin section of granite as seen in plane polarized light through a petrological microscope. A thin slice of the rock initially cut by a diamond impregnated saw blade has subsequently been ground to a thickness of about 0.03 mm and is…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 15c GraniteRhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 7½c Muscovite mica
The 7½ cent stamp shows a biaxial interference picture produced by a flake of muscovite mica in a petrological microscope, using a conoscopic lens and crossed nicols. The coloured bands are formed by interference in white light (Newton’s rings). The black bands, or isogyres, which move as the mineral is…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 7½c Muscovite micaRhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 2½c Porphyritic granite
The 2½ cent stamp is based on a photograph of a typical sample of porphyritic granite. The sample was collected from the Pomona Quarry situated on the northern outskirts of Salisbury. The rock is characterized by large crystals of potash feldspar set in a finer grained groundmass of quartz and…
View More Rhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71 – 2½c Porphyritic graniteRhodesia Philately: 1971 Granite 71
“Granite 71” was the name given to a geological symposium, international in scope, that was held in Rhodesia over a three-week period, beginning on 30th August, 1971. The symposium was organized by the Rhodesian Branch of the Geological Society of South Africa, and 250 delegates from all parts of the…
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