Category: Bahamas

The 3c stamp depicts Bell’s first telephone and a modern telephone. Details Designer: Gyula László Vasarhelyi Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Multiple Crown CA Diagonal (sideways)* Perf: 14 (comb) Cylinders: Printed in panes of four by gutters, guillotined between horizontal gutter into two panes. 1A (Cyan) 1A…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1976 100th Anniversary of the First Telephone Conversation – 3c First Telephone Conversation 10 March 1976

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) was a Scottish-born inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone. He also co-founded the American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T) in 1885. On 7 March 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1976 100th Anniversary of the First Telephone Conversation

In 1976, after Hughes’ death, the Xanadu Princess Yacht & Tennis Club was sold by the Summa Corporation to Tulsa businessman Robert B. Sutton. The Princess chain no longer managed the hotel and it was re-branded as the Xanadu Beach hotel.

View More Bahamas Philately: Xanadu Beach Hotel

In 1976, Curt Teich Industries Inc was purchased by Chicago publishing firm Regensteiner Publishing Enterprises. They continued producing postcards with the Curt Teich name until 1978. In 1980 the Curteichcolor process and name was purchased by John Hinde Ltd. A new division was established, John Hinde Curteich Inc. 1976 –…

View More Bahamas Philately: Regensteiner Publishing Enterprises

Details Publisher: Michael Hannau Enterprises, 950 S.E, 8th St., Hialeah, Florida Distributor: Printer: Koppel Color, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA Process: Photographer: Year: 1976 Series:  129900 (Type B)

View More Bahamas Philately: Michael Hannau Enterprises Inc (129900 Series – Type B)

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

View More Bahamas Philately: Dynacolor Graphics Inc (P31200 Series)

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