Page 14 - BWISC 60th Anniversary Display at RPSL, November 2014
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TOBAGO
from the collection of Charles Freeland, FRPSL
8 March 1878, envelope addressed to Jamaica showing a single-ringed
‘PAID/AT/TOBAGO’ Crowned Circle handstamp in red.
The small elliptical-shaped island of Tobago lies 19 miles north east of
Trinidad. After early occupation by French, Dutch and British forces, it
was finally ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. In 1833 it
joined the Windward Islands Federation, with Barbados as its seat of
power. But its economy continually deteriorated through the century
as sugar production became less profitable and in 1889 it united with
Trinidad as a Crown Colony. An essay of the £1 fiscal with
Although Stanley Gibbons lists only 33 stamps, Ford, Freeland and Barrow’s ‘POSTAGE’ handpainted,
recent book published by the BWISC demonstrates the wealth of interest in mounted on card and initialled.
the island’s philately. As in several other BWI islands, temporary shortages
of stamps led to the creation of a series of local provisional overprints which provide students with a plentiful
field of study, but nine pages are too few to display these in substance. Instead, the exhibit provides a snapshot
of some of the most elusive items drawn from a comprehensive collection of Tobago.
Highlights include:–
• GB stamps used in the island.
• Essays, proofs and colour trials.
• The 1879 stamp issue including a rare 6d pair on cover.
• A study of the overprint varieties on the 1886 ½d on 2½d provisional.
• An 1878 cover to Jamaica bearing the single ring Crowned Circle.
TOBAGO
from the collection of Charles Freeland, FRPSL
8 March 1878, envelope addressed to Jamaica showing a single-ringed
‘PAID/AT/TOBAGO’ Crowned Circle handstamp in red.
The small elliptical-shaped island of Tobago lies 19 miles north east of
Trinidad. After early occupation by French, Dutch and British forces, it
was finally ceded to Britain by the Treaty of Paris in 1814. In 1833 it
joined the Windward Islands Federation, with Barbados as its seat of
power. But its economy continually deteriorated through the century
as sugar production became less profitable and in 1889 it united with
Trinidad as a Crown Colony. An essay of the £1 fiscal with
Although Stanley Gibbons lists only 33 stamps, Ford, Freeland and Barrow’s ‘POSTAGE’ handpainted,
recent book published by the BWISC demonstrates the wealth of interest in mounted on card and initialled.
the island’s philately. As in several other BWI islands, temporary shortages
of stamps led to the creation of a series of local provisional overprints which provide students with a plentiful
field of study, but nine pages are too few to display these in substance. Instead, the exhibit provides a snapshot
of some of the most elusive items drawn from a comprehensive collection of Tobago.
Highlights include:–
• GB stamps used in the island.
• Essays, proofs and colour trials.
• The 1879 stamp issue including a rare 6d pair on cover.
• A study of the overprint varieties on the 1886 ½d on 2½d provisional.
• An 1878 cover to Jamaica bearing the single ring Crowned Circle.
