GUERNSEY

GUERNSEY / GUERNESEY - GERNÉSI.

Bicentenary of Duke of Richmond's Survey of Guernsey.
Map of Guernsey Island by William Gardner in 1787.
Minisheet of 4 stamps issued on 10.02.1987.
Face value: 14, 29, 31 and 34 Guernsey penny.
Design: John Cooter.
Engraving: Questa.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Print: 176,655 copies.
Size: 124 x 103 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. A378-381.
- Michel No. BL4.
- Scott No. 347.
- StampWorld No. 378-381.
- Stanley Gibbons No. MS393.
- Yvert et Tellier No. BF 7.

Duke of Richmond is a title in the Peerage of England that has been created four times in British history. It has been held by members of the royal Tudor and Stuart families. Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond (1735-1806), was a British Army officer and politician.

The British cartographer William Gardner (1739-1800), commissioned by the Duke of Richmond, in 1787 made a survey of the Bailiwick of Guernsey for defense purposes, when the French were threatening to invade the Channel Islands. Gardner received 2 pence per acre that they surveyed, and they located every dwelling on the island. It was the first accurate map of the Bailiwick.