The $2 stamp depicts Bahamasair and Cunard‘s Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2).
Bahamasair was established by the Bahamas Government and started operations on 17 June 1973 by acquiring the routes of Flamingo Airlines and the operations and routes of Out Island Airways. The government’s vision of several airlines discontinuing service to Nassau became a reality, when Pan American World Airways as well as other airlines decided to stop operating to the Bahamas. This enabled Bahamasair to capture a substantial part of the Bahamas scheduled air transport market.
Through the rest of the 1970s, Bahamasair kept adding flights to other cities in Florida and, domestically, the presence of the airline also grew rapidly. During the early 1980s, Bahamasair unsuccessfully tried to expand to the Northeast United States.
The Queen Elizabeth 2 was built for the Cunard Line and was the second ship named after Queen Elizabeth. It was operated by Cunard as both a transatlantic liner and a cruise ship from 1969 to 2008.
Details
- Designer: John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd, Leeds, England
- Printer: Format International Security Printers Ltd
- Process: Lithography
- Paper:
- Watermark: Crown CA (Diagonal)
- Perf: 14.5 (comb)
- Cylinders: Printed in four panes separated by gutter between the four panes, and guillotined into two horizontal panes.
- 1A (Cyan) 1A (Yellow) 1A (Magenta) 1A (Black) 1A (Bright Purple) : 1B (Cyan) 1B (Yellow) 1B (Magenta) 1B (Black) 1B (Bright Purple) [upper left : upper right]
- 1C (Cyan) 1C (Yellow) 1C (Magenta) 1C (Black) 1C (Bright Purple) : 1D (Cyan) 1D (Yellow) 1D (Magenta) 1D (Black) 1D (Bright Purple) [lower left : lower right]
- Sheet: R10 x 5 in two panes separated by a gutter (100 stamps)
- Quantity:
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