Page 14 - Barbados Britannia Issues - Robert Lebow
P. 14
Issue 1 - (4 Pence)
Issued to prepay packet rate to other areas of the Caribbean
entire from Bnogetown wIm indistinct oblong cancel tied to c.1852-55 (4d) & c.1 860 pinperf 14 (1 d)
backstamped "BARBADOES /MR 12/1861" paying 1d inland rate & 4d packet rate (rated "4")
wf 'Via Havana" on front but backstamped w/transit mark "ST THOMAS/B/MR 16/1861"
& postmarked "STEAMSHIP 10" 10 to be collected u on delivery
-to P. Gurley in Windsor, Bertie County, N Carolina (ex. Nathanson, Wood, Brassier, Victoria-MFR)
philatelic forgery
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attempting to misrepresent late use
of 4d imperf with bootheel cancel,
paying (4d) inter-island rate & 6 {aeep rose red) 1861 4d lake perf. 14-16 (trimmed)
paying 1 oz. packet rate to Guadeloupe and 1861 1d (trimmed)
RARRAnn.<; 1-1?
