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lot # 3118 - brit. colonies barbados
Recess by Perkins Bacon 1852/55: (½ d.) deep green on blued paper, a superb horizontal pair with large margins all round and of fine colour, used on 1854 cover to Bridgetown tied by "11" numeral obliterators of St. Lucy Parish. Reverse with miss-set single ring datestamp of despatch "AU L / 1854 / Δ" in black with inverted '7' for '4' and single ring Bridgetown arrival "AU 4 / 1854 / 1" in black. Overall mathematical doodling on the envleope but an enormously rare inland first issue cover. Cert. BPA (2020).
Catalogue 285: British West Indies – The ‘BESANÇON’ Collection (part III)
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