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Auction: 22025 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 232

(x) Barbados
Britannia Issues
Covers
1875-81 CC perf 12½ 4d. deep red and perf 14 6d. chrome-yellow, both tied by Barbados "bootheel" duplex on 1877 (10 June) double rate envelope to New York, showing red crayon "8", "new-york/due 10 cts" c.d.s. (27.6) with St. Thomas transit datestamp (12.6) on reverse; envelope with small piece missing from top left corner. A most attractive and unique franking. S.G. 68, 79. Photo

provenance:
Dr. R.H. Urwick, October 1964
Leslie Wheeler, May 1970
Basil Benwell, April 1985
Joseph Hackmey, April 1986
Christie's Robson Lowe auction, October 1989

Subject to 5% tax on Hammer Price in addition to 20% VAT on Buyer’s Premium.

Sold for
£1,200