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Auction: 20037 - The Charles Freeland Collection of Three Islands: St Lucia, Nevis & St Vincent
Lot: 479

(x) St. Vincent
The Perkins Bacon Issues
Covers

1868 (9 Sept.) double rate entire ex the Polignac correspondence to Paris, bearing 1866 perf 11 to 12½ 4d. deep blue and perf 14 to 16 1/- slate-grey, both cancelled "A10", showing red crayon "1/3", oval-framed "pd", St. Vincent c.d.s. in black, red London Paid transit d.s. (29.9) and Calais entry d.s. One of three examples of this franking recorded. S.G. 6, 9

provenance:
H.D. Bessemer, June 1970

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Sold for
£1,100

Starting price
£550