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Auction: 23013 - Stamps and Covers of the World: Featuring Superb Mauritius, the "Claremont" Collection of South West Africa and the Charles Freeland Collection of Virgin Islands
Lot: 1136

Barbados
Britannia Issues
One of the Most Important Rarities from this Colony
1873 Watermark large Star, clean-cut perf. 14½ to 15½, 6d. orange-vermilion, a remarkable strip of four with sheet margin at right, unused without gum, lovely bright colour. Only two marginal strips of four recorded, originally forming a block of eight, of which this is the upper strip. One of the most important rarities of Barbados. R.P.S. Certificate (1990). S.G. 62, £40,000. Photo

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£7,000

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£7000