Guatemala~ ID

Phil... The Truck and Jopies Europa Forerunner collection, and we have a deal



Poor old uncle Louie in Naples...look at all that postage due he had to pay....

Scuza me,
but you see,
back in old Napoli,
that covers amore

To save hunting, I borrowed a scan of the Bahamas stamp from 1859 from onefamilysblog:





The pineapple is the one on the left.

C.

Yep, beat mine by 19 years Collin

(great cover and bevelled star bobgggg )

Wiki

Interinsular = inter island

In July 1858, the governor of the Bahamas, Charles John Bayley, wanted to replace British stamps circulating on mail in the colony. In his mail to British offices, he submitted a design of a round stamp illustrated with two main productions of the islands; a pineapple and conch but, Perkins, Bacon & Co judged that such a stamp design would be too difficult to print and to perforate.

The printing company proposed a project derived from others Chalon issues: the oval of the portrait should be reduced in size and two little ovals appeared for the two Bahamian products. A banderole precised the use of the one penny stamp: "INTERINSULAR POSTAGE".

Thanks Rod. A much better scan of the design (on a slightly later stamp)...now its easy to tell that the pineapple is on the left, and not in the middle.


[To all the big fans of Vicki, I'm just kidding...never really liked the Chalon portraits all that much, though this one is probably closest to my favorite, if I had to pick.]

Lucky woman ? She stayed 17 for how many years ???????

Bob, I can not touch her collections without losing body parts but I propose a swap..heres one for openers !