Commemorating the Royal Wedding
Omnibus issue for the wedding of The Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips.
Date: 21st November 1973
Stamps: Omnibus issue THE WEDDING OF H.R.H. THE PRINCESS ANNE BERMUDA 15c and 18c
First Day Covers
Stamped cachet: FIRST DAY OF ISSUE “ROYAL WEDDING” 21st November 1973
Type: Official First Day Cover
Cachet: The Wedding of H.R.H The Princess Anne OFFICIAL FIRST DAY COVER.
CDS: 21NOV73A HAMILTON BERMUDA
Address: Crown Agents Stamp Bureau, 4 Millbank, London SW1
Type: Official First Day Cover
Cachet: The Wedding of H.R.H The Princess Anne OFFICIAL FIRST DAY COVER.
CDS: 21NOV73 MANGROVE BAY BERMUDA
Address: Cambridge Beaches, Somerset, Bermuda.
About the Omnibus issue
Key facts
Design: PAD Studio
Printer: The House of Questa
Process: Lithography
Perforation: 13½
Watermark: Multiple St Edward’s Crown Block CA (sideways)
Co-ordinators: Crown Agents
Issuing territories: 25 standard / 8 local design
Number of stamps: Unconfirmed (50 standard / 16 local design)
1973 Royal Wedding.
Standard issue – list of issuing territories
- Anguilla
- Antigua
- Ascension
- Barbuda
- Belize
- Bermuda
- British Antartic Territory
- British Solomon Islands
- British Virgin Islands
- Brunei
- Cayman Islands
- Falkland Islands
- Gibraltar
- Gilbert & Ellice Islands
- Grenadines of St. Vincent
- Hong Kong
- Pitcairn Islands
- St. Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla
- St. Helena
- St. Lucia
- St. Vincent
- Seychelles
- South Georgia
- Tristan da Cunha
- Turks & Caicos Islands
Local design – list of issuing territories
- Aituktaki (2 + souvenir sheet)
- Cook Islands (4 + souvenir sheet)
- Dominica (2 + souvenir sheet)
- Great Britain (2)
- Grenada (2 + souvenir sheet)
- Guernsey (1)
- Isle of Man (1)
- Jersey (2)
