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Auction: 21019 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 431

(x) Barbados
The Britannia Issues
Covers and Cancellations
To The United States America
1880 (8 Apr.) envelope "Per Flamborough" to Philadelphia bearing 1876-81 1d. grey-blue pair sharing bootheel duplex and with large part New York "due/5/cents" duplex at foot with the reverse bearing Postage Due 5c. brown cancelled on arrival. Rare and unusual with just four covers at this rate recorded. Photo

Note: The ship letter rate of 2d. per ½oz. to North America was enacted through a Regulation dated November 1865

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Sold for
£850

Starting price
£320