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Auction: 21077 - Important Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 140C

(x) Barbados
Britannia Issues
Covers and Cancellations

Mail to Trinidad
1861 (3 Aug.) large part entire, rated "4" and bearing 1861 clean-cut perf.(1d.) blue cancelled "1" and with despatch datestamp at left, part arrival datestamp (6.8); a couple of creases/splits clear of the adhesive. A very scarce stamp on cover of which only a couple are known to this destination. Photo

provenance:
E.K. Lickfold, February 1962

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

Sold for
£580

Starting price
£320