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Auction: 22022 - The Graham Booth Collection of West Indies, Transatlantic Mail and British Ship Letters
Lot: 1142

Barbados
Britannia Issue Covers
United States of America
1880 (9 Nov.) envelope to Philadelphia, bearing 1876-81 perf. 14 1d. grey-blue (perf. faults at right) and 4d. carmine sharing bootheel duplex and with a further despatch code A datestamp below, showing red crayon "4" and, on reverse, New York "paid/fd/all" duplex (30.11) and arrival (30.11) datestamp. A very rare franking with only one other cover recorded with this franking, accepted as full payment for delivery to destination. S.G. 73, 77. Photo

provenance:
Herbert Shilstone, July 1977
Fitz Roett

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