Two small star watermark Barbados Britannia’s added to the collection
One of the pleasures of collecting stamps is the feeling of satisfaction when you finally manage to fill an elusive…
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Commercially use UPU stamps on Barbados covers
These two covers arrived in the collecting a while ago and I thought that it would be nice to show…
Simple but interesting Barbados cover from 1966
New covers have been a bit thin on the ground recently, however, this one caught my eye. Posted in Barbados…
Not every Barbados postmark is yet recorded
It's nice to find an obscure and unrecorded postmark every now and again and this is no exception. Far from…
Collecting Barbados postmarks has become a nice distraction
When I first started to collect Barbados stamps the initial idea was to simply get one of every stamp from…
Barbados SG64 is hard to find this well centred
The Barbados 5/- stamp from 1873 is both a key and iconic stamp for any Barbados collection. Whether you are…
New Barbados First Flight Covers section added to the website
We've created a new section on the website for First Flight covers as these two turned up in a recent…
Barbados stamps new issue June 2015 – Windmills of Barbados
New in this week are the latest issue from the Barbados Philatelic Bureau. The new set of stamps is a…
Fabulous Barbados 1893 Crowned Circle cover with original contents!
This week I was extraordinarily lucky to find another of the 1893 covers which have the Crowned Circle handstamp on…
Image gallery updated with latest Barbados stamps
It's been a while coming but a couple of days off has prompted me to try and finally update the…
Barbados Britannia Block SG21
Every now and again we go mad and having saved up a bit, try to add something special to the…
Simple but elegant George V high value
Exactly as it says on the tin this is one of the simple and elegant stamps that made up the…