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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: 1149

(x) Barbados
Britannia Issues
Mail to Jamaica
1861 (25 Jan.) entire letter to Jamaica, bearing 1860 pin-perf 14 (1d.) pale blue (2, one with perforations on all sides) cancelled by "1" obliterator, showing manuscript "3 more to pay", red crayon "1d pd", arrival c.d.s. (6.2) with, on reverse, despatch and St. Thomas (29.1) datestamps. A most unusual franking. S.G. 14. Photo

Note: Fitz Roett was of the opinion that the sender of the letter believed it was double weight and affixed the appropriated postage of 2d. for the inland rate. However, the postal authorities computed it was a single rate letter and duly credited the over-payment of 1d. towards the packet rate.

provenance:
Herbert Shilstone, March 1971
Fitz Roett

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

Sold for
£2,000

Starting price
£400