A stamp is made

Bahamas 1948

Tercentenary of Settlement

Tuna fishing

Engraved by Silas Robert Allen (probably)
and Elie Timothée Loizeaux

Die proof of the engraved frame only,
which was used for all sixteen values.
Allen probably engraved the frame,
but the portrait of King George VI was done by Loizeaux.


One of the sixteen issued values