GUERNSEY

GUERNSEY / GUERNESEY - GERNÉSI.

Bailiwick Views.
Petit Bot Beach.
First stamp in a set of 2, issued on 28.03.1988.
Face value: 12 Guernsey penny.
Printing: Offset lithography.
Size: 26.3 x 34.3 mm.

Catalogs
- AFA No. 408.
- Michel No. 413A.
- Scott No. 372.
- StampWorld No. 408.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 306b.
- Unificato No. 417.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 417.

Petit Bot Bay, with its beach, sits at the base of two wooded valleys in a sheltered section of Guernsey's south coast. The Martello Tower is seen on the stamp, one of the two towers that have survived of the fifteen that were built on the coast of the island between 1778 and 1779 to deter possible French attacks after France declared itself an ally of the Americans in the American Revolutionary War. The tower, open to the public, features a small interpretive exhibit. These towers were designed to accommodate muskets only (i. e. there was no provision for artillery), and their manning was the responsibility of the Royal Guernsey Militia.

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

LIHOU

LIHOU (Guernsey).

Lihou Youth Project.
Map of the Lihou Island.
Second stamp in a set of 5. issued on 18.07.1966.
Face value: 2 penny.
Cindarella stamp, not recognized by the UPU or considered in official catalogs.

Lihou is a small 0.15 km² (0.057 sq mi) island located off the west coast of the island of Guernsey, between Great Britain and France. Administratively it is part of the parish of St. Peter in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, and is now owned by the Guernsey parliament, although it has had several owners in the past. Since 2006, the island has been jointly managed by the Guernsey Department of the Environment and the Lihou Charitable Trust. At low tide it is linked to the L'Erée promontory in Guernsey by a 400 m (1,300 ft) stone causeway. In 1989 the island was identified as a Site of Nature Conservation Interest and as part of an Important Bird Area that includes parts of the Guernsey coastline. From 1966 to 1969, when the Guernsey states assumed responsibility for postal services in the Bailiwick. Lihou issued his own stamps, which are philatelicly considered cindarellas with no postage value.

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Thanks to R. Gómez-Val for his contribution.

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.

GUERNSEY

GUERNSEY / GUERNESEY - GERNÉSI.

Lanscapes.
Grand Greve Bay, in Sark Island.
Third stamp in a set of 4, issued on 03.08.1976.
Face value: 11 Guernsey pence.
Engraved and printed by Courvoisier S.A., Switzerland.
Printing: Photogravure.
Print: 349,773 copies.
Size: 29.3 x 48.7 mm.

Catalogues
- AFA No. 132.
- Michel No. 139.
- Scott No. 139.
- StampWorld No. 132.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 143.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 134.

Sark Island (in French, Sercq; in Sercquiais, Sèr or Cerq) is a royal fief, which forms part of the Bailiwick of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, near the French coast of Normandy (which, politically, are not part of the Kingdom United). The island, including the nearby private island of Brecqhou, has an area of ​​5.44 km² (2.10 sq mi), and an estimate population of about 500. Sark consists of two main parts: Greater Sark, to the north, and Little Sark to the south, connected by a narrow isthmus called La Coupée that is 91 m (300 ft) long and has a 100 m (330 ft) drop on each side. Sark's highest point, called Le Moulin, is 114 m (374 ft) above sea level. Although English is the official language, many locals speak Sercquiais (or Sark-French, a local Norman dialect close to French). A characteristic of this island is that the circulation of cars is not allowed, only tractors, bicycles and horse-drawn carts. The island can only be accessed by sea. The Grand Greve Bay, depicted on the stamp, is located in the western part of the Isthmus of La Coupée.