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Auction: 18043 - The Philatelic Collectors' Series Sale
Lot: 515

(x) Barbados
1852-55 Issue
(2d.) greyish slate, bisected vertically, a large right half cancelled "10" and clearly tied on right-half portion of 1854 (Aug.) mourning envelope from St. Peter to Bridgetown with numeral "1" arrival datestamp (23.8) on reverse; the piece with a few small faults though a very unusual usage of this bisect with a parish cancellation. R.P.S. Certificate (1939). S.G. 4b, £8,500 on cover. Photo

provenance:
E.T. Granger

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Sold for
£420