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Auction: 16024 - The "Britannia" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 626

Barbados
1861-70 No Watermark, Rough Perf. 14 to 16
Prepared for use but not issued, Perf. 11 to 12
(½d.) grass-green, unused with large part original gum, centred to right as usual, vibrant colour, fine. Very rare, only seven examples have been recorded. B.P.A. Certificate (1996). S.G. 36, £15,000. Photo

provenance:
C.J.L Snowden
Sir James Marshall, May 1947
Hodsell Hurlock, June 1959
J.L. Messenger, 1983
Joseph Hackmey, April 1986
Dempsey Prappas, March 1995

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Sold for
£5,200