|
 |
|
BARBADOS
 The first Europeans to
arrive on the island were probably
the Portuguese in about the year 1500. In 1605 Sir Olave Leigh, "a
worshipful Knight of Kent", landed
on the island and claimed it for King James. The first group of English
settlers arrived on the island in about 1624 and by 1650 some 20,000
people had settled
on the island. It is said that the island is so called after the
bearded fig trees which were found on the island.
The British Post Office
established a Packet Agency in Bridgetown in
1663. The
Agency at first relied on casual ships to carry the mail. Edmund
Dummer started a monthly packet
service in 1702 between England and the West Indies. The service
ended in 1711 when Dummer
was made bankrupt. The Packet Agency again had to use casual ships to
carry the
mail until 1745 when a monthly service was
resumed by the British Post Office.
 Postal markings first
appeared on mail from Barbados in the 1760’s. At
the time the name of the colony was spelt ‘Barbadoes’. The British Post
Office was responsible for the internal
postal system until 1 August 1851 when it was handed over to the
Barbados Legislature. The British continued to operate the Packet
Agency, for overseas mail, till 1858. So during this period, 1851 to
1858, there were 2 separate Post Offices on the island.
The Society covers the following countries
in the British Caribbean: Anguilla, Antigua & Barbuda, Bahamas,
Barbados, Belize (formerly British Honduras), Bermuda, British Virgin
Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana (formerly British
Guiana), Jamaica, Montserrat, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, St.
Vincent-Grenadines, Trinidad & Tobago, Turks & Caicos Islands.
In addition they are also interested in Maritime Mail and British Post
Offices in and around the Caribbean
New Issues of Barbados Stamps
Get all the latest new issues and First
Day Covers direct from Barbados Barbados Postal Service A SELECTION OF LINKS FOR BARBADOS STAMPS AND BARBADOS POSTAL HISTORY International Postage Meter Stamp Catalog/Barbados The first meter was installed in 1934. All stamps have “BARBADOS” in the frank. Notes from the Past - Barbados' First Stamps Barbados was one of the first British Colonies to inaugurate postal arrangements. Almost as soon as the original settlement took place in 1624, mail service with England was organized.... Queen Elizabeth Definitives - Barbados 1953–61 and 1964–65 Nick Halewood reviews the first definitives of the new reign Barbados is an independent island nation in the West Indies. It lies east of the Windward Islands in the western Atlantic Ocean and about 435 miles northwest of Venezuela, and thus is the most easterly of the West Indies.... Barbados Britannias Part 1 - Vol 10 No 4, Jul/Aug 1959, page 140 Barbados Britannias Part 2 - Vol 10 No 5, Sep/Oct 1959, page 188 Barbados Britannias Part 3 - Vol 10 No 6, Nov/Dec 1959, page 212 Barbados Britannias Part 4 - Vol 11 No 1, Jan/Feb 1960, page 35 by Colin H Bayley, published in the Canadian Philatelist, journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada. This article was published in four parts, in four different issues of the magazine. You will need to download pdf files of the complete magazines and go to the page number given with the link. The 1882 Queen issues of Barbados Part 1 - Vol 12 No 1, Jan/Feb 1961, page 43 The 1882 Queen issues of Barbados Part 2 - Vol 12 No 2, Mar/Apr 1961, pages 65 & 105 by Colin H Bayley, published in the Canadian Philatlist, journal of the Royal Philatelic Society of Canada BOOKS
on Barbados Stamps
& Barbados
Postal
History
Advanced Barbados Philately by H F Deakin, publ British West Indies Study Circle, 1997and 2004, 26pp Many colour illustrations and containing a good presentation of the early issues of this popular Colony. The emphasis is on the items which were in the author’s collection and there is much useful detail contained in the text. Barbados, History of Airmail Flights 1929 to 1957 N C Baldwin, publ Francis Field Ltd, undated c1950, 6pp Barbados Post Office Markings to 1981 by George Clarke, Reynold Radford & Stephen Cave, punl British West Indies Study Circle, 1982, 71pp A carefully presented study of the postal markings of this popular area, fully illustrated in line drawings throughout, with plenty of background information. Barbados: A Study of the King George VI Postal Issues. by Frank R Saunders, Study paper no 12, publ King George VI Collectors Society, 1981, 93pp The Post Office in Barbados by Herbert H Bayley, publ Advocate Press, Bridgetown, 1933, 73pp The author is a collector who, not content with the existing published information about the Post Office of his country, set out to search the records, the result being given in this book. One discovery of major importance stands to Herbert Bayley’s credit, he has definitely established that the greyish slate stamp of the first issue (the stamp that was bisected and used for the penny rate in 1854) was intended for issue as a 2d. The Postal Censorship in Barbados During the First and Second World Wars by Anthony Shepherd, publ British West Indies Study Circle, 1984, 33pp The Postal History of Barbados and Grenada by Edward B Proud, publ Proud-Bailey Co Ltd, April 2006, 335 pp, ISBN 1872465420 General History of Barbados; Postal History of Barbados; Postal Rates of Barbados; Post Offices and Postmarks of Barbados; Packet Agency Statistics; Bibliography The Postal Markings of Barbados by Basil Benwell & Leonard E Britnor, publ British West Indies Study Circle, 1961, 29pp + 8pp supplement The Stamps of Barbados by Edmund A Bayley, 1989, 405pp Well researched and highly detailed study of the stamp issues with notes on proof material and Specimens plus listings of postal stationery, revenues and forgeries The Stamps of Barbados with a History & Description of the Star-Watermarked Papers of Messrs Perkins Bacon & Co by Bacon & Napier, publ Stanley Gibbons, 1896, 119pp ARTICLES IN GIBBONS STAMP MONTHLY June 1950 issue of GSM pp 114-5 STAMPS OF THE MONTH - 1950 PICTORIAL DEFINITIVES by Frederick Smale A detailed description and history of the designs of this issue. Note - I have acquired an almost complete run of Gibbons Stamp Monthly from January 1950 to May 2009. I will be working my way through these magazines and indexing them and adding notes in the same manner as above as I get to the articles. |
