BARBADOS to TRIESTE (Austria) postal history 1890 printed address cover from N.E. Parravicino with QV 1d to Trieste pmk'd open bootheel duplex dated A/SP 12 90. £75
BARBADOS postal history 1923 cover to Syracuse, New York with 8 x Farthing Seal issue pmk'd GPO 8 NOV 23. £60
TRINIDAD (RANDOLPH RUST, pioneer of the Oil Industry) via BARBADOS to NOVA SCOTIA THE ONLY RECORDED TRINIDAD COVER QV PERIOD TAKEN TO BARBADOS FOR ONWARD TRANSMISSION - 1892 cover with purple RANDOLPH RUST/PORT OF SPAIN/TRINIDAD W.I./COMMISSION AGENT sender cachet (not previously seen) taken to Barbados with QV ½d dull green tied open bootheel duplex dated A/DE 31 92 addressed Halifax, Nova Scotia. £450
PRIVATE SHIP LETTER "AYR" 1d RATE cover to BARBADOS 1906 cover endorsed "Per Private Ship "Ayr" from DARTMOUTH" to Highgate House, St. Michael's, Barbados with GB KE7 1d pmk'd WALWORTH G.O. dated NO 15 06, partial arrival b/stamp. Use of 1d by longer journey time private ship most unusual at this time as mail carried by contract vessels at the 1d Empire Rate. £75
BARBADOS postal history Cable and Wireless TELEGRAM locally to Chancery Lane with QE2 8c tied GPO 17 MR 75 d/ring, backstamped Christchurch same day arrival. £40
SOUTHAMPTON SHIP-LETTER arrival, Barbados postal history 1909 Royal Mail Steam Packet Company (embossed flap) cover to Southampton with 1d Seal pmk'd 28 OC 09 landed with SOUTHAMPTON SHIP-LETTER cds dated 15 10 09 (error 10 for NO). £75
BARBADOS G.P.O. wax seal 1927 reg. OHMS cover to Wraysbury, Buckinghamshire with KGV 3d Badge pmk'd R.L.O. 14 APR 27 cds, reverse clear of poorly opened intact flap BARBADOS/Crown/G.P.O. wax seal. £60
Ciudad Bolivar, VENEZUELA via TRINIDAD to BARBADOS 1901 use of overprinted "1900" 10c UPU Post Card written "23 Sep 1901 C/Bolivar" underpaid at with purple "T" tax handstamp to Ernesto A Monck at Merry Wing Hall, Worthing, Barbados with Port-of-Spain E/SP 26 1901 transit and Barbados A/SP 29 01 arrival on address panel, central crease, full text. £40
EARLIEST ENTIRE TO EUROPE AFTER THE APRIL 15 1852 FIRST ISSUES PLACED ON SALE Entire headed "Barbados 26th April 52" to Messrs. Newton Gordon Copart & Co, Madeira marked "Favored by Capt Chambers", no postal markings, docketted as Rec'd 17 June 1852. Letter reads: "We beg to introduce to you Capt Chambers of the British Brig Emanuel Boucher who takes to your Island some return Emigrants from Demerary, would you assist him on obtaining an onboard xxx and favour him with your advice should he apply to you, we shall consider it a favour conferred on dear Sirs, Yr ob Servant Barow Drummett". £200
BARBADOS to Pernambuco, BRAZIL postal history 1885 cover to Messrs. Pohlman and Co., Pernambuco, Brazil with QV 1d tied Barbados open bootheel duplex dated A/MR 29 85, lower flap can display PERNAMBUCO 22 ABR 85 arrival. A rare QV period destination. £140
ST. JOSEPH, Barbados postal history 1892 use of QV ½d newswrapper (complete) to The Hon. A. Pile, Greens, St. George pmk'd A/MR 9 92 open bootheel duplex re-directed showing ST. JOSEPH 6/MR 9 92 arrival. £30
BARBADOS stamps: SG UNLISTED 1855-57 diagonally bisected imperforate (1d) deep blue (SG.10a) tied to printed matter piece by Bridgetown "1" obliterator with matching ink colour BARBADOES AP 25 1859 double-arc alongside, further portion of another obliterator at right shows a full (1d) stamp removed for a triple rate, reverse shows (Page) 258. The missing adhesive adds to the authenticity of the piece, and the dbl-arc shows the dent at base as found on full covers for the period. (Listed under covers for convenience): The Edmund Bayley handbook (Page 27) states: There is only one recorded copy of the deep blue (1d) stamp bisected vertically joined to a whole stamp on part of a newspaper, which bears the "1" numerical cancellation and is dated OC 21 1857. This copy is in the Royal Philatelic Collection. (The bisected 1860 (1d) pin-perf. issues, without datestamps, are catalogued £750.00 on piece). £625
Code 4 used ST. GEORGE, Barbados postal history (M2-R, replacement cds with wording further away from outer rim) arrival dated (4)/JA 8 (87) both code and year not inserted (LRD) on QV ½d red-brown Post Card written "St. John's Jany 8th" and posted with Bridgetown open bootheel duplex dated A/JA 8 87 to His Honor, The Speaker, Greens, St. George. Confirmation that this is the Parish code 4 cds comes with the damaged rim at 8 o'clock as found on earlier dates on loose adhesives. The current ERD for the M3 series cds is only 10 days later, JA 18 87. The earliest strikes JA 18 87 to OC 23 90 also show no code 4, at some point thereafter the code 4 was inserted. £240
BARBADOS postal history: 1933 L.S. Wilson, Bridgetown printed advertising cover for a Vesta Sewing machine and Rejuvention treaments (reverse) to The Barr Rubber Products Co., Sandusky, Ohio with 2½d Badge tied G.P.O. 13 SE 33 d/rings. £28
BARBADOS "USED ABROAD" U.P.U. POST CARD ACCEPTED IN ERROR AT DOMINICA 1886 use of Barbados QV 1½d brown UPU Post Card with cross-written text headed "Mar 29" pmk'd Dominica vertical "A07" at Roseau with C/AP 3 86 despatch cds alongside to Miss M.B. Clinckett, Rev. Canon Branch, The Rectory, Barrouallie, St. Vincent with only KINGSTOWN C/AP 8 86 arrival b/stamp, corner fault but a fine example of accepted mail which should not have been accepted without penalty. £275
Code 3 used ST. PHILIP, BARBADOS postal history 1879 locally addressed cover to J.G. Carter, Thurbun, St. Philip with 1d grey-blue (SG.74) tied Bridgetown open bootheel duplex dated A/JA 2 79 showing BARBADOS 3/JA 02 79 (M2-O) arrival alongside address panel, flap removed. Thought one of only two covers to St. Philip with this Parish arrival cds, the other has the arrival as backstamp. £250
BARBADOS to PITCAIRN ISLAND postal history 1946 cover to The Postmaster, Pitcairn Islands with KG6 ½d, 1½d pmk'd 22 MY 46 with PITCAIRN ISLAND POST OFFICE arrival d/ring dated 4 AUG 46. £60
Code 7 used ST. JAMES, Barbados postal history (M2-R) dated 7/MY 14 85 as arrival on QV ½d Post Card to The Spring Plantation, St. James, reverse printed text headed Bridgetown with buying prices refined sugar, and molasses per gallon. £48
CRYPTIC HAND-DRAWN COVER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., Barbados postal history 1968 airmail cover with hand-drawn and coloured steamship marked "Wup" to Prestiment Johnson (sic), United States, U.S.A. with QE2 25c coral pmk'd CHRIST CHURCH 14 NO 68 showing small red NOV 16 arrival on address panel, sender address on reverse. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the USA 1963 to 1969 taking office after the Kennedy assassination.
£175
BARBADOS to ARGENTINA postal history 1933 cover to Buenos Aires with KG6 2½d Badge pmk'd GPO machine dated 2 SEP 1933. £25