Early Postcards of Pitcairn Island

The images in this set of stamps are taken from old postcards of Pitcairn Island. The six stamps show various images, offering a glimpse into island life as it was back in the 1920s.

Sending postcards may now have fallen out of fashion, but in the early 20th century it was still very popular. At that time, when travel was only really available to the upper classes, these images could be seen around the world, and in a time before the internet, emails and text messages, postcards were not only a way of keeping in touch, but also offered the recipient a chance to see scenes or places they could only ever imagine visiting. The images featured on these stamps seem like a time capsule and a reminder of how life once was.

The photographs first appeared on postcards in the 1920s. On the photo side, they featured a brief description of the subject together with the initials HGK.