The Bahamas 1938 King George VI Pictorial Stamp Issue | Presented by Jay Bigalke

Jay Bigalke, editor-in-chief of Linn’s Stamp News, joins the Club on Wed. Feb. 5^th, 2020 to present The Bahamas 1938 King George VI Pictorial Stamp Issue

The Collectors Club cordially invites you to learn about “The Bahamas 1938 King George VI Pictorial Stamp Issue” from Jay Bigalke.

Three beautiful stamps with fascinating stories issued July 1, 1938 during the reign of King George VI. The 4-penny Sea Gardens found used on commemorative covers sent from the seafloor via the Williamson photosphere, the world’s first undersea post office.  The 6p Fort Charlotte depicting the American revolution era British fort overlooking Nassau Harbor and the 8p Flamingos in Flight stamp showing the official National Bird of the Bahamas.   Please see the article and original images in Linns https://www.linns.com/news/world-stamps-postal-history/presentation-about-1938-bahamas-kgvi-pictorial-stamps-at-collectors-club.

Jay Bigalke returned to Linn’s Stamp News as editor-in-chief in 2017 and brings a wealth of experience with him. He also serves as editor-in-chief of the Scott catalogs.

In 2005, Bigalke started his philatelic journalism career at Linn’s, where as senior editor he covered U.S. stamp stories.

He left Linn’s in 2014 to become editor of the American Philatelist, the journal of the American Philatelic Society, and Philatelic Literature Review, the quarterly publication of the American Philatelic Research Library.

Bigalke is a 2005 graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he studied retail and journalism. He began collecting stamps in 1991, at the age of 9.

He credits his great-grandmother with sparking his interest in stamp collecting when she gave him postcards franked with U.S. 4¢ Abraham Lincoln stamps. He grew up in a small town in Wisconsin and frequented the local post office and became friends with the postmaster.

Bigalke is a fellow of the Royal Philatelic Society of London, a member of the American Philatelic Society, Collector’s Club of New York and many other philatelic organizations.

He was the inaugural recipient of the American Philatelic Society’s Outstanding Young Adult Philatelist award in 2008 and in 2011 he was inducted into the Wisconsin Federation of Stamp Clubs Hall of Fame.

Learn more about The Bahamas 1938 King George VI Pictorial Stamp Issue from Jay Bigalke on Wednesday the 5th of February 2020 at the Collector’s Club (22 East 35th Street, New York, NY). The social hour opens at 5:30, and the talk begins at 6:30 pm. A dutch treat dinner (attendees pay for their own cheque) with Jay follows the presentation at a local restaurant. Participation in the dinner is optional. There is no charge for the social hour or the talk.

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