The stamp is one of five stamps issued in
2004 by Bermuda to commemorate the Quincentennial of the Island. The
other maps were made by Giacomo Gastaldi, Vincenzo Coronelli, Jacques
Nicholas Bellin, and John Thomson.The map on the low value of the set
is based on a watercolor by Roger Birch, a British naval officer, about 1940, preserved in the
Bermuda Maritime Museum.

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