Category: Bahamas

Details Publisher:  Distributor: Printer: Dynacolor Graphics Inc., Miami, Florida Process: Photographer: Andrew Aitken Year: 1976 Series: P31200

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Details Publisher:  Distributor: Printer: Koppel Color Process Photographer: Year: 1976 Series: 162400

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The homage of the Magi to the newly born Saviour is set against a backdrop dominated by the ruins of an ancient building, with the stable where Jesus was born in the middle. The decorative friezes on the portico are inspired by ancient Roman art, which Domenico Ghirlandaio was able…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 Christmas – 8c Ghirlandaio: Adoration of the Magi

This wood panel, alongside two others equally conserved at the Museum of Rouen (the Baptism and the Resurrection of Christ) come from the predella (lower part) of an altarpiece that Pietro Perugino was commissioned to produce in 1495 for the church of San Pietro in Perugia. The principal subject was…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 Christmas – 21c Perugino: Adorations of the Shepherds (detail)

Details Date of Issue: 2 December 1975 Date Withdrawn:  Date Invalidated: Designer: Jennifer Toombs Printer: John Waddington of Kirkstall Ltd, Leeds, England Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple Crown CA Diagonal Perf: 13 (comb) Cylinders:  Sheet:  Subjects 3c 8c – Ghirlandaio: Adoration of the Magi 18c 21c – Perugino: Adorations of the Shepherds (detail)…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 Christmas

Details Designer: Jennifer Toombs Printer: Questa Colour Security Printers Limited (The House of Questa) Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple Crown CA Diagonal Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders: Ultramarine Blue Sepia Sheet: Quantity: Sheet Numbers

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 International Women’s Year – 14c Rowena Rand mother + farmer + evangelist

Details Date of Issue: 22 July 1975 Date Withdrawn:  Date Invalidated: Designer: Jennifer Toombs Printer: Questa Colour Security Printers Limited (The House of Questa) Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple Crown CA Diagonal Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders:  Sheet: Quantity: Subjects 14c – Rowena Rand mother + farmer + evangelist 18c

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 International Women’s Year

The major exporters of oil into The Bahamas in 1975 were Saudi Arabia, Nigeria and Libya. The United States was its major recipient. The largest refinery in the was the Bahamas Oil Refining Co. (BORCO) located in Freeport, Grand Bahama, with a capacity of 500,000 barrels. Details Designer: Daphne Padden Printer: Questa…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 Economic Diversification – 21c Refining Crude Oil

Animal Husbandry is the term given to the care, raising and breeding of livestock including cattle, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. In 1974-1975, a grant was awarded to the government of the Bahamas to strengthen their livestock industry called the Bahama Livestock Project. This involved two contractors (Penn. State Univ. and…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 Economic Diversification – 3c Sheep Husbandry

Details Date of Issue: 27 May 1975 Date Withdrawn:  Date Invalidated: Designer: Daphne Padden Printer: Questa Colour Security Printers Limited (The House of Questa) Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: None Perf: 14.5 (comb) Cylinders:  Sheet: Quantity: Subjects 3c – Sheep Husbandry 14c 18c 21c – Refining Crude Oil 56c – Miniature Sheet

View More Bahamas Philately: 1975 Economic Diversification