Bahamas

Bahamas stamps

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The Commonwealth of The Bahamas is an independent nation in the West Indies. An archipelago of 700 islands and cays (which are small islands), the Bahamas is located in the Atlantic Ocean, east of Florida in the US, north of Cuba and the Caribbean, and northwest of the British dependency of the Turks and Caicos Islands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahamas

Postage stamps and postal history of the Bahamas

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postage_stamps_and_postal_history_of_the_Bahamas

#152

Scott: #152O (CD308)

Issued: 10.10.1949

UPU Issue

Inside #152: Stamps on Envelopes

#174 #175 #176 #177

Scott: #174-7O

Issued: 10.6.1959

Centenary, Bahamas Stamps

Inside #174-7: Like Bahamas A1 (B) (Pic of #2)

#288

Scott: #288-89P

Issued: 30.1.1969

50th Anniversary of 1^st Flight, Nassau to Miami

Inside #288: Bahamas 1d Postcard - H&G # 9 postal card

Lou wrote: Bahamas #288 is inscribed "First Airmail Flight Miami-Nassau 1919", which did occur on October 30, but the reproduced postal card is for the Nassau-Miami return flight on the same day! This is certainly, what the Bahamas Post intended to celebrate, but the designer, Victor Whiteley made the wording error, and it wasn't found until the stamps were issued.

The round trip flights were made by two U. S. Navy NC-4 Flying Boat aircraft; no U.S. mail was on the Miami-Nassau flight as there was no U.S. Post Office sanction for it, the flight had been arranged by the Bahamas Post Office. Various sources report that between 400 to 600 pieces of mail, mostly postal cards, were on the Nassau-Miami flight.

The reproduced postal card has the imprinted stamp cancelled with a 29 JAN 19 NASSAU p.o.receIving date and elsewhere, is the 30 JAN 19 mailing date. Going from the Bahamas to California for only one penny in postage was an incredible bargain!

The actual flight card

1969 FDC which has the correct flight info on the cachet inscription

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

[The 100th Anniversary of U.P.U, type ]

Scott: #361aP

Issued: 23.4.1974

UPU Emblem

Inside #361a: Pseudo Stamp

#450-3

Scott: #450-53PP

See also - Special Album

Issued: 14.8.1979

Death Centenary of Sir Rowland Hill

#1 HH Inside #450: G.B. #1 [D-L]

Visit: The Penny Black Plate project http://www.arcieriminerva.it/SOS/homeSOS.htm

Inside #451: Bahamas #7O

Inside #452: G.B. #27O

Inside #452: G.B. #29P

Inside #453: Bahamas #1O

http://www.firstissues.org/ficc/details/bahamas_1.shtml

Scott: #453aPP

See also - Special Album

Scott: #553-4P

Issued: 22.2.1984

125^th Anniversary of Bahamas Stamps

#3 for #553 Inside #553: Bahamas #3O

Inside #554: Bahamas #1O

http://www.firstissues.org/ficc/details/bahamas_1.shtml

#597-601

Scott: #597-601P

Issued: 19.5.1986

AMERIPEX '86

Inside #597: Bahamas #464O

Definitives 16v Inside #597: Bahamas #471O

(Thanks to J. van Lin for the scan)

Inside #598: Bahamas #288P

Inside #598: Bahamas #289P

Inside #599: Bahamas #392O

Inside #600: Bahamas #489aO

Inside #601 (in Margin): Pseudo Stamp

#601a

Scott: #601aO

Scott: #683-86O

Issued: 17.11.1989

World Stamp Expo '89

Inside #683: Bahamas #359O

Inside #684: Bahamas #301O

Inside #685: Bahamas #601P

Inside #686: Bahamas #150O

Scott: #687O

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for the scan

Inside #687 (in Margin): Bahamas #126

Inside #687 (in Margin): Bahamas #116

Inside #687 (in Margin): Bahamas #123

Inside #687 (in Margin): Bahamas #124

Scott: #776-9O

Issued: 2.6.1993

40th Anniversary, Coronation of QEII

Inside #776: Bahamas #424-425O

Inside #777: Bahamas #157O

Inside #778: Bahamas #402-403O

Inside #779: Bahamas #404-405O

Scott: #806-9O

Thanks to Lloyd Gilbert for the scans

Issued: 31.5.1994

Int'l. Olympic Committee Centenary

Inside #806: Bahamas #276-279O

Inside #807: Bahamas #388-391O

#559-62

Inside #808: Bahamas #559-562O

Olympic games 4v

Inside #809: Bahamas #755-758O

Scott: #861aO

Issued: 03.02.1997

Hong Kong ‘97

Inside #861a (In margin): Pseudo Stamp

Scott: #1281O

Issued: 26.05.2009

150th Anniversary, First Bahamas stamp

Inside #1281a-d: Bahamas #1O

Scott: #1281eP

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Scott: #1419P

Issued: 16.08.2014

75th Anniversary of First Undersea Post office

Inside #1419: Bahamas #106O

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Scott: #1435O

Issued: 09.09.2015

Our Longest Reigning Monarch

sos bahamas 157 1953 (2) Inside #1435: Bahamas #157O

sos bahamas 157 fdc (3)

Lou wrote: Too bad the designer didn't shift the cover in the layout to include at least part of the stamp and cancel on the cover.

Thanks to Lou Guadagno

Best website related:

Bahamas Postage Stamps and Postal History

http://www2.gsu.edu/~libpjr/stamps.html

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Bahamas #1 + for Turks & Caicos, Grenada

#3 for #553

Bahamas #3

Bahamas #7

For #451

Bahamas #106O

Bahamas #116

Bahamas #123

Bahamas #124

Bahamas #126

Bahamas #150O

#152

Scott: #152O (CD308)

Issued: 10.10.1949

Bahamas #157 + for Paraguay

#174 #175 #176 #177

Scott: #174-7O

Issued: 10.6.1959

Bahamas #276-279O

Bahamas #277 for Niger

sos bahamas 278 1968

Bahamas #278 for Chad

Bahamas #301

Bahamas #359O

Bahamas #388-391O

Bahamas #392O

Bahamas #402-405O

Bahamas #424-425O

Bahamas #464O

Definitives 16v

Bahamas #471O

Bahamas #489a

Bahamas #531 for Sierra Leone

#559-62

Bahamas #559-562O

#601a

Scott: #601a

Bahamas #645 for Central Africa

Bahamas #645-8 for Sierra Leone

Bahamas #647 for Togo

Scott: #683-86O

Issued: 17.11.1989

Scott: #687O

Olympic games 4v

Bahamas #755-758O

Scott: #776-9O

Issued: 2.6.1993

Bahamas #780 for Hong Kong

Bahamas #783 for Hong Kong

Scott: #806-9O

Issued: 31.5.1994

Scott: #861aO

Issued: 03.02.1997

Scott: #1281O

Issued: 26.05.2009

bahamas 9 9 15 (2)

Scott: #1435O

Issued: 09.09.2015