1939 Barbados First Day Cover solves a little historical mystery For many years I have been left wondering about a particular discrepancy in the Stanley Gibbons Windward Islands and Barbados... Read More
Unusual Stamp Fair find highlights a forgotten piece of Caribbean history At a recent stamp fair I was just about to leave when a dealers box caught my eye. Sitting on... Read More
1970’s First Day Covers with an amazing destination down under! I’m always happy to collect the First Day Covers of Barbados, not least of which because they have been very... Read More
A new twist on a Barbados Independence First Day Cover As this was the 50th Anniversary it occurred to me that it would be nice to see if there was... Read More
George VI commemoratives on first day cover….at last! It’s only taken three years of looking but finally my patience has paid off. I have been looking for a... Read More
Barbados 1947 First Day Cover The Barbados ‘Badge of the Colony’ set was issued between early January 1938 and April 1947 and collecting each of... Read More
Barbados Coronation FDC from 1937 OK so this is not hugely rare as First Day covers go but it’s clean, neat and typed which always... Read More
Is this the most unusual FDC ever? Back in 1893 things were getting tough for stamps on Barbados. Despite an overprint in 1892 of ½d on the... Read More
Is this an FDC or not? This little item was acquired recently from an online auction and at first glance, it appears to be a legitimate... Read More
Another cover for the Geo VI collection This week we’ve been quite lucky in acquiring a number of duplicate covers, some of which will end up on... Read More
New FDC’s added to the collection As part of this project we are trying to get a good copy of every FDC issued in Barbados going... Read More
Why so much postage on this 1955 cover? Recently we picked this beauty up from eBay and at first glance, you might think ‘you’re mad, look at the... Read More
