Harbour Island was a District Post Office situated on Eleuthera. Date Stamps Proud lists this as D6 (unseen) but the cancel is more like D5 with the DDMMMYY lower down. Description: 25mm Single Circle HARBOUR ISLAND / BAHAMAS DDMMMYY Usage: 14AUG53 – 17FEB67 Type: Type 7 III (Luddington & Raymond)…
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Bahamas Philately: Soft Coral
Soft corals, like sea fingers and sea whips, are soft and bendable and often resemble plants or trees. These corals do not have stony skeletons and are non-reef-building corals—instead, they grow wood-like cores and fleshy rinds for protection. Like hard corals, they tend to live in colonies. Stamps & Postal…
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Sponges, the members of the phylum Porifera, are a basal animal clade as a sister of the diploblasts. They are multicellular organisms that have bodies full of pores and channels allowing water to circulate through them, consisting of jelly-like mesohyl sandwiched between two thin layers of cells. Sponges have unspecialized…
View More Bahamas Philately: SpongeBahamas Philately: Pan American Publishing Corporation
The Pan American Pub. Corp was located in North Miami, Florida. Postcards C-12800 Series C-18100 Series
View More Bahamas Philately: Pan American Publishing CorporationBahamas Philately: Feather Duster (Bispira brunnea)
The Feather Duster (Bispira brunnea) is a species of marine bristleworm. The worm was first described in 1917 by the American zoologist Aaron Louis Treadwell, a specialist in annelids, who gave it the name Metalaonome brunnea. It was later transferred to the genus Bispira, becoming Bispira brunnea. The worm tends…
View More Bahamas Philately: Feather Duster (Bispira brunnea)Bahamas Philately: Supreme Court Building
The Supreme Court is located on Bank Lane, Nassau. Ground was broken for the Neo-Georgian style building in 1921 by then Governor of the Colony of the Bahamas, Sir Harry Cordeaux. The courthouse is similar in design to the Central Public Building which is north of the building. The Supreme…
View More Bahamas Philately: Supreme Court BuildingBahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Harbour Island – Pink Sand Beach
Pink Sand Beach on Harbour Island stretches three miles along the eastern Atlantic coast. The soft pink tint comes from foraminifera shells blending with powder-white sand. Postcards 1955 – Dexter Press Inc (69800 Series – Type A) 1961 – Dexter (37400-B Series) 1962 – Dexter (46600-B Series) 1964 – Natural…
View More Bahamas Philately: Eleuthera – Harbour Island – Pink Sand BeachBahamas Philately: Bimini – North Bimini – The Queen’s Highway
The Queen’s Highway (also known as Main Street) is the second major road running the length of North Bimini in parallel to the King’s Highway. Postcards/Lettercards/Letter Folders 1960 – Dexter (28300-B Series) 1979 – Dynacolor Graphics Inc (P1200 Series)
View More Bahamas Philately: Bimini – North Bimini – The Queen’s HighwayBahamas Philately: New Providence
New Providence is the most populous island in The Bahamas. It is the location of the national capital city of Nassau. The island was originally under Spanish control following Christopher Columbus’s discovery of the New World, but the Spanish government showed little interest in developing the island (and The Bahamas…
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