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Auction: 22025 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 237

(x) Barbados
Britannia Issues
Covers
1875-81 CC perf 14 4d. crimson-lake tied by Barbados double-arc d.s. in blue-black with another strike alongside on 1881 (9 Sept.) envelope to Derbyshire showing arrival datestamp (26.9). A unique franking. S.G. 78. Photo

Note: On joining the U.P.U. on 1 September 1881, the letter rate was reduced to 4d. per ½oz. On the first and second packet sailings after this date, some mail at the G.P.O. was cancelled with blue-black ink.

provenance:
Ralph Hart, February 1978
Nathanson, September 1981
M. Sheppard, October 1984

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

Sold for
£400