Barbados First Day Covers | Barbados Stamps

It’s always a challenge. How can you get a postally used First Day Cover when the stamp value is below... Read More

It’s been a while; seven years in fact, but I’ve finally found the block of time needed to scan, process... Read More

This weekend I’ve finally found a little bit of time so faced with the choice of adding more stock for... Read More

Back in 1988, the Barbados Philatelic Bureau was set to release a series of five stamps celebrating famous Barbadian cricketers.... Read More

For many years I have been left wondering about a particular discrepancy in the Stanley Gibbons Windward Islands and Barbados... Read More

At a recent stamp fair I was just about to leave when a dealers box caught my eye. Sitting on... Read More

I’m always happy to collect the First Day Covers of Barbados, not least of which because they have been very... Read More

As this was the 50th Anniversary it occurred to me that it would be nice to see if there was... Read More

It’s only taken three years of looking but finally my patience has paid off. I have been looking for a... Read More

The Barbados ‘Badge of the Colony’ set was issued between early January 1938 and April 1947 and collecting each of... Read More

OK so this is not hugely rare as First Day covers go but it’s clean, neat and typed which always... Read More

Back in 1893 things were getting tough for stamps on Barbados. Despite an overprint in 1892 of ½d on the... Read More