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Issue 6 - Six Pence
1 st issued: 1861
Printing: recess by Perkins, Bacon & Co., London
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Quantity issued: 279,250
Perforation 14-16 (rough)
rose red (c.1 861)
"1" (Bridgetown) "1" inverted horizontal pair "1" (Bridgetown)
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part cover w/"bootheel" cancel tied to 6d paying compulsory prepaid packet rate effective August 22, 1861 ,
to Barclays & McDowell in Jamaica postmarked "BARBADOS/1/AU 27/63" and
"ST. THOMAS/AU 30/1863" double arc transit & "KINGSTON JAMAICNC/SP 5/63" arrival c.d.s.
rated "4" (red) pence being the prepaid packet rate not to be collected upon arrival
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