Category: Bahamas

Type: D5-M6B Description: 2.1mm Single Circle MACKEY STREET, BAHAMAS H:MM:AM(PM) / MMM DD / YYYY Cancellation: Seven wavy lines (16.5mm high) Usage: NOV 13 / 1963 – MAY 27 / 1974 Note: Luddington & Raymond do not list a 16.5mm cancellation. Slogan Cancellations 1970 – Bahamas National Open – Bahamas…

View More Bahamas Philately: Post Office – Mackey Street (Nassau) – Machine Cancellations

Salina Point post office opened on 1 November 1963. The office used a Temporary Rubber Date (TRD) stamp briefly until December 1963 when a 30mm steel-die date stamp arrived. The TRD was collected by the Commissioner and returned the Nassau General Post Office (G.P.O.). References British Caribbean Philatelic Journal Vol…

View More Bahamas Philately: Acklins Island – Salina Point (Post Office)

Details Publisher: Distributor: The Lewis Agency, Nassau, Bahamas Printer: Koppel Color, Hawthorne, New Jersey, USA Process: Photographer: Colour by Nassau Bahamas Development Board Year: 1963 Series: 54200

View More Bahamas Philately: The Lewis Agency (54200 Series)

Grace Line built replacement passenger combo vessels in 1963/64 after their previous nine ships were sent to the breakers. The new ships were the Santa Maria, Santa Magdelena, Santa Mercedes and Santa Mariana and were referred to as the “M” ships.  The Santa Maria was a 20,000 ton liner that offered 19…

View More Bahamas Philately: Grace Line – Santa Maria

Operation Hope – Bahamas was a volunteer association founded by Walt Sterling to assist with the educational, wealth, health, sports and special projects throughout the Bahamas. Sterling was noted as an “internationally honored teacher of world geography” (A.A.U.N. Speaker and U.S. Maritime Officer). Several sets of postcards were produced to assist…

View More Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (65500-B Series)

Operation Hope – Bahamas was a volunteer association founded by Walt Sterling to assist with the educational, wealth, health, sports and special projects throughout the Bahamas. Sterling was noted as an “internationally honored teacher of world geography” (A.A.U.N. Speaker and U.S. Maritime Officer). Several sets of postcards were produced to…

View More Bahamas Philately: Dexter Press Inc (75400-B Series)

Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: Block CA Perf: 13.5 (comb) Plates: 1 1 : 1a 1a [Left pane : Right pane] Sheet: Printed in two panes of 120, separated by a gutter. Guillotined through gutter into two single panes (R5 x 12). Quantity: …

View More Bahamas Philately: 1963 International Red Cross Centenary (1863-1963) – 10d Red Cross

Details Designer: Victor Whiteley Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: Block CA Perf: 13.5 (comb) Plates: 1 1 : 1a 1a [Left pane : Right pane] Sheet: Printed in two panes of 120, separated by a gutter. Guillotined through gutter into two single panes (R5 x 12). Quantity: …

View More Bahamas Philately: 1963 International Red Cross Centenary (1863-1963) – 1d Red Cross

From 26-29 October 1863, an international conference met in Geneva at the invitation of a small committee. It passed a series of resolutions, the first of which determined the creation of a committee, in each country, to combine with the Army Medical Services in the event of war, and the…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1963 International Red Cross Centenary (1863-1963)

Details Designer:  Printer: Bradbury Wilkinson & Co Ltd, New Malden, Surrey, England Process: Recess Paper:  Watermark: Multi Script CA Perf: 11 x 11.5 (comb) Plates: 2 (Deep Ultramarine), 1 (Black) : 2a (Deep Ultramarine), 1a (Black) [Left pane : Right pane] Sheet: Printed in two panes of 120, separated by a gutter. Guillotined through…

View More Bahamas Philately: 1963 Bahamas Talks – 10d