St. Vincent Stamps

Some of the interesting St. Vincent philatelic items that you can collect:

Postmarks (St. Vincent has over 50 post offices!)

Postmarks from "Barrouallie" and "Georgetown" from the late 1800's are shown above.  For a complete list of post offices (both past and present) on St. Vincent & the Grenadines, see http://www.freewebs.com/stvincentstamps/otherinfo.htm

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Postal History

A nice "postage due" cover!

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Censor covers (from World War II)

A censored "QSL card" (used by amateur radio [ham] operators) to confirm reception of broadcast signals

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Official covers & mail

A 1945 OHMS cover with a "Senior Medical Officer" marking

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Fakes & Forgeries

Fake "Lundy Island" stamps that use a design from St. Vincent's "Half Penny" stamps from 1883 and 1885

Fake "Phoenix Island" stamp that uses a 1913 St. Vincent design

From left to right:

1. Early forgery of the 6 pence stamp, lithographed
2. Early forgery of the 4 pence yellow, note the blatantly wrong "10" postmark (it should be "A10)
3. Typical forgery from the Spiro Brothers (1880's) of the 1 shilling stamp (lithographed instead of engraved, note the "dots" cancel)
4. Dangerous engraved forgery by Panelli (1927) of the 4 pence yellow stamp

More St. Vincent fakes & forgeries information can be found at:

http://www.freewebs.com/stvincentstamps/fakesforgeries.htm and

at Bill Claghorn's website at http://members.tripod.com/claghorn1p/StVincent/index.htm

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Registration Labels

Registration label from "Diamond Village"  that uses a label from "Park Hill"

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Postal Stationery (such as Aerogrammes, Envelopes & Cards)

Postal stationery card from 1882.   Mint postal cards are very easy to find, however, postally used ones command a premium in price

Only a few postal stationery envelopes were issued; they are seldom seen.   Most often they are found mint or with a SPECIMEN overprint

Registration envelope with a SPECIMEN overprint

NOTE:  Aerogrammes are also available starting in the 1950's

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Revenue Stamps

Early 5 shilling REVENUE stamp (overprinted on a regular postage stamp) from the 1880's.  Values above 5 shillings, such as the £1 (shown on the right above) through the £50 values are extremely rare and difficult to find.

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Revenue Stamps on Document

Revenue (1880 - 1900) or postage (1900 - current) stamps that are saved intact on the document are fairly difficult to find.   Here is a lodging receipt from 1948

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Postage Meters

Postage meters are used in St. Vincent also, as some businesses need to use them to streamline the mailing of monthly invoices

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Also available, but not illustrated here at this time:

• SPECIMEN stamps (almost all St. Vincent stamps since the 1880's are available with SPECIMEN overprints; initially only a few hundred were printed to give to member nations of the Universal Postal Union [UPU].   In the 1970's to current, these were often given away to collectors that ordered stamps from the Philatelic Services Bureau on St. Vincent).
• See http://www.freewebs.com/stvincentstamps/errors.htm for more information and a discussion about St. Vincent error stamps).
• Proofs (Color separation and other proofs are available for some of the stamps from the 1980's).

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