Bermuda‘s first official national stamps featured a portrait of Britain’s Queen Victoria in 1865. This followed the general approach to British territorial and colonial postage stamp issues.
That first 1865 series of Victoria stamps came in five different colors and values, with the same design being reused in later years, sometimes with different colors. These stamps were occasionally overprinted with new surcharged values.
A new design featuring the same portrait of Queen Victoria was issued in 1883 in several different values and colors; there was a ‘ONE FARTHING’ surcharged version in 1901.
Victoria died in 1901; her successor, King Edward VII, oddly did not appear on any postage stamps of Bermuda during his reign.
