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Auction: 16024 - The "Britannia" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 641

Barbados
1861 (Aug.) The "cancelled" Obliterator
1861 no watermark, clean-cut perf 14 to 16, (½d.) deep green neatly cancelled by two part strikes of "cancelled" obliterator; straight-edge at right and perfs clipped at foot. Extremely rare, one of four recorded examples. S.G. 17, £12,000. Photo

Note: This stamp is from position 4 in the vertical block of six.

provenance:
Hodsell Hurlock, June 1958
Robson Lowe auction, June 1977
Dr. Conrad Latto, May 1995
Peter Jaffé, November 2006

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Estimate
£4,000 to £5,000