Provisional issue with surcharge Date: 1st July 1893 Type: Postal Card with Provisional Surcharge Higgins & Gage: Bermuda #7 BSC: SC7b2 Colour: Carmine on buff Text: UNION POSTALE UNIVERSELLE / BERMUDA (LES ISLES BERMUDES) POST CARD / THE ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE. Indicium: Victoria definitive 1½d surcharged in black. NO EXAMPLE […]
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1885 Halfpenny Inland Postal Card
New postal card Date: 25th March 1885 Type: Postal Card Higgins & Gage: Bermuda #3 BSC: SC4 Colour: Blue on buff Text: POST CARD / BERMUDA / THE ADDRESS ONLY TO BE WRITTEN ON THIS SIDE. Stamps: Victoria definitive ½d HALFPENNY
1d on 2d Bright Blue Provisional Surcharge
Queen Victoria overprint Stamp: 1d on 2d Overprint: One Penny. and One Penny
1d on 1/- Green Provisional Surcharge
Queen Victoria overprint Date: 11th March to 17th April 1875 Stamp: 1d on 1/- green Overprint: One Penny. and One Penny
3d on 1/- Green Provisional Surcharge Type 3
New variant of the Queen Victoria overprint Date: 19th May to 13th August 1874 Stamp: 3d on 1/- green with Roman Capitals Overprint: THREE PENCE
3d on 1/- Green Provisional Surcharge Type 2
New variant of the Queen Victoria overprint Date: 31st March 1874 Stamp: 3d on 1/- green with fancy “P” Overprint: THREE PENCE
3d on 1/- Green Provisional Surcharge Type 1
Queen Victoria overprint Date: 12th March 1874 Stamp: 3d on 1/- green with plain “P” Overprint: THREE PENCE
Perot Provisional
Bermuda’s first stamps Bermuda’s first postage stamps were produced locally in 1848 by Hamilton postmaster William B. Perot, consisting of the words “HAMILTON BERMUDA” in a circle, with the year and Perot’s signature in the middle. Known as the Perot provisionals and only eleven are still known to exist and The Queen has three of […]
