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Auction: 20024 - The "Dubois" British Commonwealth Collection of Stamps and Covers
Lot: 146

Barbados
1861 (Aug.) The "Cancelled" Obliterator
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

Note:
In August 1861 the printers, Perkins, Bacon & Co., provided six examples of each stamp in their possession to Ormond Hill (eldest son of Rowland Hill) for members of his family. These fascinating stamps and the story behind their appearance, have been fully described by Peter Jaffé in his book "cancelled" by Perkins Bacon.

provenance:

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



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Sold for
£4,000

Starting price
£3200