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Issue 1 - (2  Pence)


                                                   1 st issued: 15 April  1852
                                        Printing : recess by Perkins, Bacon & Co., London
                                                 Unwatermarked/b/uish paper
                                                         Im perforate
                                                   Quantity printed: 10,000









                     This stamp has caused much controversy since its color does not reflect the "purple"
                    described as the Two Pence value in the "Report of the Inland Postmaster of Barbados."
                        Whatever pigment was used in the printing caused these stamps to be similar to
                                the One Penny blue; thus very few of them were postally used.







                                                        greyish slate












                                                        horizontal pair

                                                    (BPA 1993 cert 38782)
                                                  (Brandon 1987 cert 1161 4)
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