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Auction: 9028 - British Empire Stamps & Postal History
Lot: 5

Barbados 1852-1971 mint and used collection in an album; the mint include 1852-55 blued paper 1/2d. deep green, 2d. greyish slate (2, one cut very close on one side, the other with gum thin) and unissued (no value) slate-blue pair, 1855-58 1/2d. green (no gum), 1861-70 no wmk rough perf 1/2d. (12, shades, including three pairs), 1d. (3 including a pair), 4d. (4 including an imperforate pair - regummed), 6d. (3 including an imperforate pair - touched at left) and 1/- (3), 1873 wmk Large Star 6d. marginal imperforate block of four and 1/-, 1873 (June) 3d. brown-purple (small thin), 1875-80 CC perf 12 1/2 1/2d. (3) and 4d. (2), 1882-86 1/2d. to 5/-, 1892-1903 CA 1/2d. to 2/6d. (both), 1897-98 Jubilee white paper 1/4d. to 2/6d. and blued paper 1/4d. to 10d., 1905 MCA 1/4d. to 2/6d., 1906 Nelson 1/4d. to 1/-, 1909-10 MCA 1/4d. to 1/-, 1912-16 MCA 1/4d. to 3/-, 1916-19 1/4d. to 3/-, 1920-21 Victory 1/4d. to 3/- and 1921-24 1/4d. to 3/-; the used include 1852-55 blued paper 1d. (2), 2d. greyish slate bisect on small piece and 4d. (2), 1855-58 white paper 1/2d. (2) and 1d. (6 including two pairs), 1858 6d. (4, one cut-into) and 1/- (3), 1861-70 1/2d. (2), 1d. (4), 4d. (4), 6d. (6) and 1/- (2), 1870 wmk Large Star 1/2d. (3), 1d. (2), 4d., 6d. and 1/- (3), 1871 wmk Small Star 1d. (2), 4d., 6d. and 1/- (3), and 1873 (June) 3d. Condition a little mixed though a good foundation upon which to build Estimate £ 2,500-3,000

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