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Auction: 17015 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale featuring The "Foxley" Collection of Barbados
Lot: 537

Barbados
1861-70 Issue
Issued Stamps
1/- blue error of colour with small printer's guide mark at top centre, pen marks removed as on all examples, reperforated at foot and regummed though of wonderfully fresh appearance and arguably the prettiest of the fifteen examples so far recorded. R.P.S. Certificate (1987). S.G. 34a, £18,000. Photo

Note: In 1863 the printer, Perfins, 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.

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Sold for
£6,500