Category: Bahamas

Details Publisher:  Distributor: Printer: Dexter Press, West Nyack, New York Process:  Photographer: Larry Witt Year: 1970/71 Series: 39300-C – Type B

View More Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (39300-C – Type B)

Details Designer: Gordon Drummond Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Block CA Perf: 13 (comb) Cylinders: N/A Sheet: Printed in sheets of at least two, and guillotined for individual sale. Quantity: Sheet Numbers

View More Bahamas Philately: 1970 Christmas – 41c Miniature Sheet

The 15c depicts the Adoration of the Shepherds by the School of Seville. It is still not certain who painted it but it was most likely a prominent Spanish artist as several copies survive in Spain. In the painting, the Virgin Mary gently lifts her new-born son while Saint Joseph,…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1970 Christmas – 15c The Adoration of the Shepherds (Detail) – Sch. of Seville

The Adoration of the Shepherds, sometimes still known as the Allendale Nativity, after a former owner, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance painter Giorgione, completed in about 1505 to 1510. The attribution is now usual, although not universal; the usual other view is that it is an early Titian.…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1970 Christmas – 12c Adorazione Dei Pastori – By Giorgione (Detail)

The 11c depicts The Holy Family with the Infant Saint John by Anton Raphael Mengs (1728–1779). Details Designer: Gordon Drummond Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Block CA Perf: 13 (comb) Cylinders: Sheet: Quantity: Sheet Numbers

View More Bahamas Philately: 1970 Christmas – 11c The Holy Family – By Anton Raphael Mengs (Detail)

The 3c stamp is based on an altarpiece by Giovanni Battista Pittoni, depicting both the Nativity (the birth of Christ and his adoration) and the Trinity (God the Father, Christ and the Holy Spirit). It was painted around 1740 and it is unknown for which church it was commissioned. Details…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1970 Christmas – 3c The Nativity (Detail) By Pittoni

Details Date of Issue: 3 November 1970 Date Withdrawn:  Date Invalidated: Designer: Gordon Drummond Printer: Thomas De La Rue & Co Ltd Process: Lithography Paper:  Watermark: Block CA Perf: 13 (comb) Cylinders: Sheet: Quantity: Subjects 3c – The Nativity (Detail) By Pittoni 11c – The Holy Family – By Anton Raphael Mengs (Detail) 12c –…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1970 Christmas

The Holiday Inn on Paradise Island was opened in November 1971 and was the second Holiday Inn in the Bahamas. The 535-room hotel, overlooking Pirates Cove, constructed at a cost of $8 million was the tallest building in The Bahamas. “Magnificent best describes this new Holiday Inn on Paradise Island…

View More Bahamas Philately: Holiday Inn (Paradise Island)

Details Publisher: Great American Color Co, Miami, Florida Distributor: Printer: International Graphics, Hollywood, Florida Process: Photographer:  Year: Series: R25600

View More Bahamas Philately: Great American Color Co (R25600 Series)

In 1970, Dukane Press was bought out by Taylor Publishing Co., Dallas, Texas, a subsidiary of Insilco Corp (International Silver). In 1973, the name was changed to International Graphics Inc., of Hollywood. In January 1975, the company was divested and sold. It traded as International Graphics. Insilco Dukane Press #2500…

View More Bahamas Philately: Insilco Corp