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| Country: Barbados Clear Subject: All | Sort: Newest listed first |
;) | 11 used ST. LUCY, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1874 1d deep blue (SG.74). £8 |
;) | 10 used ST. PETER, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1874 1d deep blue (SG.66). £9 |
;) | 8 used ST. THOMAS, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on QV 1d (SG.91). £12 |
;) | 8 code used ST. THOMAS, Barbados postmark (M2-R) dated 8/OC 17 83 on QV 1d (SG.91), scarcest code of the Parish Type M2 group. £50 |
;) | 5 used ST. JOHN, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1d dull blue (SG.73). £4 |
;) | 10 used ST. PETER, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1874 1d deep blue (SG.74). £9 |
;) | 10 used ST. PETER, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on (1d) blue Small Star wmk (SG.52), defective middle right edge, clear part double lined seriffed "PO" marginal watermark (upright and in reverse as viewed from back). £9 |
;) | 5 used ST. JOHN, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1871 1/- black Small Star wmk (SG.51), some faults including trimmed perfs. £28 |
;) | 11 used ST. LUCY, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1876 ½d bright green CC wmk P.14 (SG.72), perfs. clipped lower left side. £15 |
;) ;) | BARBADOS postal history 1903 cover to Warminster, England with most unusual and accepted mixed country and mixed currency franking of Barbados 1d and British Guiana 2c tied BARBADOS A/JY 4 03 cds, Bath and Warminster backstamps. £125 |
;) | EXHIBITION COVER SHORT-LIVED 14 CORNER DOTS GREAT BRITAIN QV 1d LILAC to BARBADOS 1881 cover with five copies GB QV 1d Venetian red and seven copies GB QV 1d lilac (SG.166,170) pmk'd London S.W/32 duplex dated AU 2 81 to Mrs. Belfield, Chelston, Barbados being the penultimate 1/- rate prior switching to the 4d U.P.U. rate on SP 1 1881, backstamped BARBADOES AU 18 1881 dbl-arc arrival clear of largely missing flap. A spectacular exhibition cover for the short band of use 14 dots in each corner GB QV 1d lilac. The 1d Venetian red stamps do not have the Orbs watermark error Cat.£27,000 apiece. £600 |
;) | ST. JAMES code 7, Barbados postmark (M3) dated 7/DE 14 87 on QV 1d (SG.91). £5 |
;) | 7 code used ST. JAMES, Barbados postmark (M2-R) dated 7/AP 5 86 on QV 4d (SG.99). £15 |
;) | BARBADOS postal history 1862 refolded horizontally along top (to reduce/improve) wrapper front and back to London with 6d (SG.29) pmk'd Bridgetown "1" with BARBADOES NO 7 1862 despatch dbl-arc showing red London NO 29 62 arrival, discoloured at left. £85 |
;) ;) | BARBADOS postal history 1931 U.S. 2c PSE pmk'd West Chester, Pennsylvania (AP 14) to Kingston, Jamaica and returned (AP 30), marked "Try Bridgetown, Barbados" arriving JU 2 31 with eventual "UNCLAIMED" handstamp, marked with "RETURN TO SENDER" (OC 9) arriving back New York (OC 18). £60 |
;) ;) ;) | BARBADOS postal history Fabricated 1865 entire to John Jeffrey & Co, Edinburgh with cleverly added (1d) blue tying in with original portion bootheel cancel with BARBADOS I/FE 9 65 cds alongside. The entire only given away by addition of wrongly rated red crayon "6". £125 |
;) ;) | SPECIAL FIGHT AROUND THE ISLAND, BARBADOS postal history 1939 cover with 2 x U.S. 3c Landing of the Swedes and Finns tied U.S.S. RANGER/BRIDGETOWN BARBADOS duplex dated MAR 16 1939 addressed Denver, Colorado with purple 3-line "SPECIAL FLIGHT/AROUND BARBADOES/BRITISH WEST INDIES" handstamp on front, reverse with ½d Badge of Colony tied GPO 6 MR 39 cds appended below "9 of 28" and signed "JS Johnson-Pilot, Bridgetown, Barbadoes". £150 |
;) ;) ;) | 2nd Battalion The Duke of Wellington's Regiment, BARBADOS postal history 1891 QV 2½d rate regimental cover to Cushendun, Co. Antrim, Ireland pmk'd SP 12 91 duplex with neatly written 14 sides on 3 pages regimental note paper in the form of a diary spanning the period 14 days Saturday 29th August to Friday 11th September. Newsy contents mention loss of £70 worth of silver in a robbery, the subsequent capture of one of the robbers when he tried to sell some of the spoons to a jeweller, another of the garrison had up by the police for refusing to pay full fare on the railway, and additionally getting caught when he gave his A.D.C.s free pass to his sister, polo matches, guard duty, shooting of braces golden plover, long legs and chirps, and taking the ponies for a swim and their rapid exit due a nearby blue shark. There is also mention of sketches of the glens of Antrim by the English artist and author Rose de Crespiguy. £150 |
;) ;) | BARBADOS postal history 1899 unsealed rate cover with handstruck purple "MAIL VIA ST. LUCIA." to New York with ½d Seal pmk'd B/JY 24 99. £60 |
;) ;) | BARBADOS postal history 1894 cover marked blue crayon "Down Train" to Airy Hill House, St. George with 1d Seal tied ST. JOHN MR 22 94 showing ST. GEORGE 4/MR 22 94 arrival, backstamped Barbados A/MR 22 94, toned spotting. (Ex Tony Sheppard). £120 |