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Auction: 16024 - The "Britannia" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 622

Barbados
1861-70 No Watermark, Rough Perf. 14 to 16
1/- blue error of colour with the usual pen-marks removed, perforations on three sides, good colour and well-centred for this stamp, faint trace of toning otherwise fine. Extremely rare, only fifteen examples have been recorded. R.P.S. Certificate (1962). S.G. 34a, £18,000. Photo

Note: In 1863 the printer, Perfins, Bacon and 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.

provenance:
J. Charlton Henry, April 1961
Isleham, May 1987
"Samos", June 1991
Howard & Torie Gibralter, February 1996

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Sold for
£4,000