Bantams: The nickname of the South African definitive series of 1942-43. Wartime economy measures required stamps of small size to conserve paper.
Bantams - Nickname of the South African definitive series of 1942-43.
Bars - Printed, vertical defacement that is placed on a stamp in order to overprint new, different information or design such as a different denomination.
Bantams: nickname given to the miniature war-tax stamps of South Africa during World War II, term for SWA overprint: see: S W A.
Bantayan Islands: bogus, Philippine island northeast of Cebu.
To conserve paper during World War II, South Africa and South West Africa issued small stamps known as "bantams." The designs were the same as the previous stamp issue but were shrunk to half the size.
 See also: Used, Philatelic, Imperforate, Block, Sheet
  
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