Page 12 - Barbados Britannia Issues - Robert Lebow

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)