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Auction: 24016 - The Lionheart Collection of Great Britain and British Empire Part XIX
Lot: 59

(x) Barbados
1861 Perkins Bacon "Cancelled", no watermark, clean-cut perf 14 to 16, (½d.) deep green neatly cancelled by two part strikes of the "canceled" obliterator; straight edge at right and perfs clipped at foot. Extremely rare, being one of four recorded examples. S.G. 17, £12,000

provenance:
Hodsell Hurlock, June 1958
Robson Lowe Auction, June 1977
Dr. Conrad Latto, May 1995
Peter Jaffé, November 2006
'Britannia', February 2016
'Dubois, March 2020


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

Estimate
£4,000 to £6,000

Starting price
£3200