Information On Pitcairn Island

The population of Pitcairn Island is now 49. I had thought that the Pitcairn people designed their own stamps and had them pressed in New Zealand. Now, I wonder if they have anything to do with it. Does anyone know anymore about this?

Louise, maybe this will help: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posta...airn_Islands .

Peter

New Zealand.

OK and Thank you
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OK Mount Dick is their - Auckland's highest peak. And, Auckland Island is part of New Zealand. And, Great Britain owns Pitcairn island. And there are now 49 people in Pitcairn Island. At least one of those is a man placed in a new Pitcairn Island jail built by Great Britain recently to put him in it for- incest.
All of this, I find interesting. But, I always thought the people of Pitcairn Islanders designed their own stamps. Do they>>?

Opinion:
No,
In 1940 Pitcairn Island issued their own stamps.
In 1979 Pitcairn stamps were available from the Australia Post Philatelic sales centre.

Designers came from everywhere, Jennifer Toombs (GB) designed some,
"Burning of the excess stamps" in a 44 gallon drum.
Her design was in error, as the law provided 4 people be present,
however only 2 were on the stamp.

Walsall Printers GB



Envelopes were also made of Pandanus Leaves
My enquiry in 2016

Rod222 This is just wonderful. You certainly have the personal touch. I now have to get my hands on this. Is there anyplace that you know of to download it pdf? This Island and the people are just so interesting. Is Meralda on the Island? And, do you know how I could address an envelope to them? I would like to write them about their stamps. Thank you for this.

The Hornadge catalog is still under copyright, so a legal PDF is not available. A Google search found multiple copies in libraries and also for sale, some cheaper than others. Happy Hunting.

Speaking strictly for the King George VI era stamps, I have always felt that the Pitcairn Islands stamps were issued primarily for collectors and most never saw the island. This would be Gibbons and Scott 1-8 which was issued in 1940.

The initial set was printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson; and Waterlow. Both are English printers who produced many of the King George VI issues for other colonies. According to the Crown Agents reports, thousands of Pitcairn Islands stamps were printed, and most were distributed to dealers. This system was used for all of the other colonies to allow distribution without having to send the stamps to the colony first.

I don't want to reproduce all of the quantities here, but the two "rare" values the 4d (SG 5b, ST 5A) and 8d (SG 6a, ST 6A) values were printed in a quantity of 120,000 stamps each in 1951 when they were produced. Other values were printed numerous times and in much larger numbers.

So considering the low number of people living on the island, it stands to reason that the stamps were produced primarily for sale to collectors.

If you do collect Pitcairn Islands stamps and actually want stamps the reached the island, I would look for covers with postmarks from the time period the stamps were in use. Those should be really rare items.

Pitcairn Island Post Office 24 May 63, picture postcard.

Nice Link P12 ! Thank you.



Louise,
she was when I wrote in 2016, she was involved in the souvenirs, I think she made woven Pandanus items.
They have few opportunities to garner funds on the Island.

I don't recall her having any knowledge of postal items or Philately.

You may wish to visit here
http://www.christian.pn/

Perhaps factually correct, but irrelevant for those collectors for interest in History, Geography and general knowledge.
I prefer to dwell on the positives, every country produces stamps for collectors, why single out Pitcairn?
Let's relax and focus on the positives of our hobby.

Louise,
I found Meralda's email.
I trust it is OK to broadcast her business here.......

Rod, I wasn't trashing the Pitcairn Islands. Go back and look at the initial query that started this thread.

"The population of Pitcairn Island is now 49. I had thought that the Pitcairn people designed their own stamps and had them pressed in New Zealand. Now, I wonder if they have anything to do with it. Does anyone know anymore about this?"

I was responding to that question with some information about the first set.