| 24-September-2019 Norfolk Island Australia Mutiny On The "Bounty" Wesley FDC
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| 24-September-2019 Norfolk Island Australia 2 Stamps Mutiny On The "Bounty" Wesley First Day Cover with cachet "Setting Bligh and Supporters Adrift" and affixed with two stamps: $1 Bligh Cast Adrift (37.5mm x 26mm); $2 Mutineers (37.5mm x 52mm) tied pictorial postmark Rope, Anchor, Banner, Norfolk Island N.S.W. 2899. The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty is the most famous founding narrative of Norfolk Island and one of the most infamous events in maritime history. It occurred in the South Pacific Ocean on 28 April 1789, when unhappy crew members, led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, seized control of the ship from their captain, William Bligh, setting him and his 18 supporters adrift in a longboat. Many of the mutineers settled on Tahiti and Pitcairn Island. Today many Norfolk Islanders can trace their ancestry back to the mutiny in 1789. The descendants of the Bounty mutineers and their Tahitian consorts include the modern-day Pitcairn Islanders as well as a little less than half of the population of Norfolk Island. Some of the mutineers’ names are still carried by island residents, including Christian, Young, Adams, Quintal and McCoy. The stamps and minisheet design reproduces a handcoloured aquatint engraving made by English artist Robert Dodd in 1790. This copy of the aquatint is held in the National Library of Australia. The aquatint was issued in October 1790, only a few months after the first printing of Bligh`s account of the mutiny. It shows Bligh and his men being cast adrift in the longboat. At the moment depicted, the painter or rope of the longboat is still attached to the ship, and the four swords reluctantly allowed to the men in the longboat are about to be thrown to them. That Dodd`s sympathies lay with Bligh is made further evident in the caption, which notes that the men in the open boat "sustained life under divine providence for 41 days".
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Item #: INV-134434
Condition FDC
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Pricing in AU$
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Within Australia
A$
7.50
(inc GST 0.68 )
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Outside Australia
A$ 6.82
(approx. US$4.57)
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