Page 75 - Barbados Britannia Issues - Robert Lebow

Issue 9 - Three Pence

1 st issued: June 1873
Printing: recess by Perkins, Bacon & Co., London
Watermark: (small 6 pt. star) (sideways)
Quantity issued: 20,000

The Three Pence value was issued to pay the required rate per ½oz. for ship mail to Great Britain
by vessels other than Packet Boats. The plates were of different size than previous issues
being 10 X 12 ( 120 stamps) instead of 10 X 11 . This size paper created problems
such that it is very unusual to find a perforated stamp of this issue well-centered.

Perforation 14

plate proof
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block(4)

claret

type GPO-2 open bootheel duplex cancel
"AP 10/77"
(late use)

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