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Auction: 17010 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The Robert Van Buren Emmons FRPSL, Collection of British Empire Classics
Lot: 1089

(x) Barbados
Early Letters and Handstamps
1686 (24 July) entire letter from Col. Rowland Buckeley "p Capt. Hart QDC" to Mrs. Ursula Gunstone "at Capt. Wm. Walkers, Merchant, London", showing manuscript "3" and with partially struck Bishopmark on reverse. A remarkably early letter from the island. Photo

Note: Colonel Rowland Buckeley was one of the most prominent and wealthiest men of his time in Barbados. He was a member of the House of Assembly in 1679 representing the parish of St. George. Records show that he commanded a horse troop of local militia, whose function it was to protect the island from French invasion

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Sold for
£2,300