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Auction: 5023 - Important Great Britain, British Post Offices Abroad, Crowned Circles & B.E.
Lot: 419

xBarbados 1863 1/- blue error of colour with the usual pen-marks removed, perforations or traces thereof on three sides. Extremely rare. B.P.A. Certificate (1976). Sc. 21c; S.G. 34a, £13,000 Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 Note: In 1863 the printers, Perkins, Bacon and Co., sent a supply of 50,000 to the island. On arrival it was discovered that they were printed in blue, the colour of the 1d., instead of black. A new supply was despatched and the "blue" error was not put on sale. Before disposing of these stamps, a number were removed and defaced with a cross in ink which has subsequently been cleaned off. It is believed that only nine such errors exist. provenance: Ferrrary, November 1922 (Sale 5) Arthur Hind, May 1934 (Sale 2) Stanley Gibbons Auctions, September 1981

Sold for
£10,000