Ringing out the bells at midnight on Christmas Eve to announce the historical birth of Christ is one of the church’s oldest traditions. For hundreds of years bells have announced the arrival of events and occasions, both good and bad. They play an important and traditional role during the Christmas holiday. Bahamas Post introduced four beautiful stamps that feature a variety of traditional Christmas bells.
The 15c and 65c values feature different cowbells that, together with drums, whistles and horns, are used by musicians to create the hypnotic rhythms that sound on Boxing Day and New Year’s Day. The 25c value depicts the bell decorations that are so familiar to all of us. Given the long association of bells with Christmas the bells are now one of the traditional decorations for trees and houses around the world. Church bells were first introduced into the Christian church in AD 400 and within a few hundred years had become quite common throughout Europe. The 50c value shows a traditional church bell ringing out in joyful celebration for Christmas.
Check out the latest Christmas 2019 stamp issues.
