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Auction: 14025 - The Philatelic Collector's Series sale
Lot: 230

Barbados
1861-70 no watermark, rough perf 14 to 16 1/- blue error of colour with the usual pen-marks removed, perforations on all sides; creased/repaired and with thins though a presentable example of this major West Indies rarity. Friedl Certificate (1959). S.G. 34a, £18,000. Photo

Note: In 1863 the printer, Perkins Bacon & Co., sent a supply of 50,000 to the island. On arrival it was discovered that they were printed in blue, the colour of the 1d., instead of black. A new supply was despatched and the "blue" error was not put on sale. Before disposing of these stamps a number were removed and defaced with a cross in ink which has subsequently been cleaned off. It is believed that only fourteen such errors exist.

provenance:
H. Frenkle
E. Creed
Peter Jaffé, November 2006

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Sold for
£2,700