A tourist attraction off the coast of
Pembrokeshire with boats from Tenby going to the island every
15 minutes from Easter through October. The main attraction is the beautiful
scenery, the monks and their abbey and their shop with their own brand of
perfumes, chocolate etc. Their website does not mention anything about stamps,
but Caldey Island stamps were introduced in 1973 by the monks as a means of
prepaying visitors' mail to Tenby on the mainland - 20
minutes away by boat.
The island maintains its own Post Office and has a unique postmark. The stamps are marked "2 dabs" and cost ten pence each. The name "dab" was chosen by the monks to reflect the old idea of barter, the dab being a fish caught in local waters - once the staple diet of the Caldey Islanders.
The island maintains its own Post Office and has a unique postmark. The stamps are marked "2 dabs" and cost ten pence each. The name "dab" was chosen by the monks to reflect the old idea of barter, the dab being a fish caught in local waters - once the staple diet of the Caldey Islanders.
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