Page 6 - Barbados Britannia Issues - Robert Lebow

Issue 1 - (½ Penny)

1 st issued: 15 April 1852
Printing: recess by Perkins, Bacon & Co., London
Unwatermarked/b/uish paper
Im perforate
Quantity printed: 180,000

Issued to prepay printed newspaper postage rate of the Inland Post Office Act of 1851.
This was the first half-penny stamp issued in the British Commonwealth.

yellow green (shades) (c.1855)

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"1" (Bridgetown) heavy bluing "3" (St. Philip) "5" (St. John) "1 O" (St. Peter)

deep green (shades)

dark green bottom sheet horizontal pair
margin copy bottom margin horizontal strip of 4

"2" (Christchurch) horizontal pair "1 O" (St. Peter)
"5" (St. John)

philatelic forgery