BARBADOS

BARBADOS.

350th Anniversary of the First Settlement.
John Ogilvy Map, 17th century.
Third stamp in a minisheet of 4. issued on 17.12.1975.
Face value: 25 Barbadian cents.
Design: PAD Studios.
Printed by John Waddington Security Print Ltd., Kirkstall, Leeds, UK.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 29 x 43 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 401.
- Scott No. 430.
- StampWorld No. 402.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 540.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 407.

In 1625, the first settlers arrived to Barbados from other Caribbean islands, and in 1627, the first permanent settlers arrived from England, and the island became an English and later British colony. During this period, the colony operated on a plantation economy, relying on the labor of enslaved Africans who worked on the plantations; Final emancipation of the enslaved population in Barbados occurring over a period of five years following the Slavery Abolition Act 1833. On November 30, 1966, Barbados became an independent state and real Commonwealth, and November 30, 2021, the island transitioned to a republic within the Commonwealth of Nations. Barbados's population is predominantly of African descent.

John Ogilby (1600 –1676) was a Scottish translator, printer and cartographer. Best known for publishing the first British road atlas, he was also a successful translator, noted for publishing his work in handsome illustrated editions. In 1674 Ogilby had been appointed "His Majesty's Cosmographer and Geographic Printer" and in 1675 he issued his Britannia atlas which included such details as the configurations of hills and the relative size of towns. The map of Barbados represented on the stamp was made in 1670.

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Thanks to Dragan Buškulić for his contribution (https://worldofstamp2.wordpress.com/).

BARBADOS

BARBADOS.

1st anniversary of the Caribbean Free Trade Association (CARIFTA).
Partial map of the Caribbean Sea with the member countries of the Association highlighted.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 06.05.1969.
Face value: 5 cents of Barbadian dollar.
Printing: Photogravure,
Print: 273,076 copies.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 285.
- Scott No. 316.
- StampWorld No. 286.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 386.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 293.

The CARIFTA was organized on May 1, 1968, to provide a continued economic linkage between the English-speaking countries of the Caribbean. The 12 countries that made up the Association were: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, British Honduras (now Belize, which joined in May 1971), Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, Saint Christopher-Nevis-Anguilla, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Trinidad and Tobago. The Association's Secretariat was based in Georgetown (Guyana). The CARIFTA was officially dissolved on May 1, 1974, and its members were integrated into the Caribbean Community (CARICOM or CC).

BARBADOS

BARBADOS.

350th Anniversary of the Founding of Bridgetown.
John Gibson's map of Bridgetown, 1766.
First stamp in a set of 4, issued on 01.03.1978.
Face value: 12 cents of Barbadian dollar.

Catalogues
- Michel No. 437.
- Scott No. 470.
- StampWorld No. 438.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 593.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 445.

The kingdom of Castile took possession of the island of Barbados when Columbus landed there during his first voyage, in the 15th century. In the seventeenth century the English converted the place into a colony, a situation that remained until November 30, 1966, the date of declaration of independence in the context of the Commonwealth. When the British arrived on the island, one of the few vestiges of indigenous pre-existence was a primitive bridge built over the area of the Careenage swamp by an indigenous Caribbean people, the Tainos, in the center of the present city of Bridgetown. Upon finding that structure, the settlers named the area the Indian Bridge. Finally, after 1654, they built a new bridge over the Careenage, and the area became known as the City of Saint Michael and later, definitely, as Bridgetown. The English settlement of Bridgetown began on July 5, 1628 with the arrival of 64 settlers from the English town of Wolverstone. The urbanization of the city was based on a design similar to that of the medieval centers of England, characterized by narrow serpentine streets and alleys. Bridgetown's legal boundaries were not redefined until 1822.

John Gibson (1750?-1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draftsman, and printmaker. He spent most of his life in prison due to various debts; however, he produced thousands of maps and his best known work is the pocket atlas known as Atlas Minimus (1758). He also worked for Gentleman's Magazine for which he recorded different decorative maps. He also published his own work in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, The Universal Museum, and The Universal Traveler.