1946 Victory and Peace Omnibus Issue

Bermuda Peace Commemorative Issue

Date: 6th November 1946
Stamps: 1½d and 3d Victory Omnibus Issue

Type: First Day Cover
CDS: -6NOV46B FLATTS BERMUDA
Cachet: First Day Cover / QUO FATA FERUNT / Bermuda Peace Commemorative Issue

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Type: First Day Cover
CDS: -6NOV46A ST. GEORGES BERMUDA
Address: Mrs Raymond L. Myers, c/o Ms G. Outerbridge, St. George’s, Bermuda

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Type: First Day Cover
CDS: -6NOV46B HAMILTON BERMUDA
Address: Mr D E Gibbons, 9 Front Street, Hamilton, Bermuda
Stamps: 1½d Victory Omnibus Issue – plate block of four 59B

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Type: First Day Cover
CDS: -6NOV46B HAMILTON BERMUDA
Address: Mr D E Gibbons, 9 Front Street, Hamilton, Bermuda
Stamp: 3d Victory Omnibus Issue – plate block of four 60A

About the Omnibus issue

Key facts

Designer: De La Rue
Printer: De La Rue
Process: Lithography
Perforation: 14
Watermark: Multiple Script CA
Release Date: 6th May 1935

Issuing territories: 40 (62 total)
Number of stamps: 80 (164 total)

Victory and Peace issue celebrating the victory and peace of the 1939-1945 war. A total of 40 territories participated in the standard issue with a further 21 producing local designs. The standard issues shows the Houses of Parliament within a frame. On the right is a profile of King George VI with a frame and St Edward’s Crown. Both lower corners have the value table and the words ‘Postage and Revenue’ are framed to the right. The name of the territory is set across the a framed panel at the top.

Standard design (2) – list of issuing territories

1. Aden
2. Ascension
3. Bahamas
4. Barbados
5. Bermuda
6. British Guiana
7. British Honduras
8. British Solomon Islands
9. British Somaliland
10. British Virgin Islands
11. Cayman Islands
12. Ceylon
13. Cyprus
14. Dominica
15. Falkland Islands
16. Falkland Islands Dependencies
17. Fiji
18. Gambia
19. Gibraltar
20. Gilbert & Ellice Islands
21. Gold Coast
22. Grenada
23. Jamaica
24. Kenya Uganda Tanganyika
25. Leeward Islands
26. Malta
27. Mauritius
28. Montserrat
29. Nigeria
30. Northern Rhodesia
31. Nyasaland
32. Pitcairn Islands
33. St Helena
34. St Kitts-Nevis
35. St Lucia
36. St Vincent
37. Seychelles
38. Sierra Leone
39. Trinidad & Tobago
40. Turks & Caicos Islands

Local design – list of issuing territories

1. Aden – Seiyun (2)
2. Aden – Shihr and Mukalla (2)
3. Australia (3)
4. Pakistan – Bahawalpur (1)
5. Burma (4)
6. Basutoland (3×2 South Africa overprinted in Afrikaans and English)
7. Bechuanaland Protectorate (3×2 South Africa overprinted in Afrikaans and English)
8. Cook Islands (4 New Zealand overprint)
9. Great Britain
10. Hong Kong (2)
11. India (4)
12. India – Hyderabad (1)
13. Morocco (2 GB overprinted Tangier)
14. New Zealand (11)
15. Niue (4 New Zealand overprint)
16. South Africa (3×2 Afrikaans and English)
17. South West Africa (3×2 South Africa overprinted in Afrikaans and English)
18. Southern Rhodesia (4)
19. Swaziland Protectorate (3×2 South Africa overprinted in Afrikaans and English)
20. Western Samoa (4 New Zealand overprint)
21. Zanzibar (2)