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Auction: 16024 - The "Britannia" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 642

Barbados
1861 (Aug.) The "cancelled" Obliterator
1861-70 no watermark, rough perf 14 to 16, 6d. rose-red neatly cancelled by two part strikes of "cancelled" obliterator, good colour; perfs virtually cut off at foot. Extremely rare, one of three recorded examples. S.G. 29, £12,000. Photo

Note: This stamp is from position 2 in the horizontal 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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Sold for
£3,200