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The Colony Seal
The government of Barbados wrote to the Crown Agents on 23 September 1891 requesting
the substitution of the Arms of Barbados for the Queen's Head on the Postage Stamps
of the Colony. The adoption of this design would prevent Barbados from having
to issue a new design upon changing of the monarch.
There were eight values originally printed and placed on sale between 18 and 21 July 1892:
½d, 1d, 2½d, Sd, 6d, 8d, 10d, 2s/6d. Later requests were for a One Farthing stamp (¼d)
for the newspaper rate, a Two Pence value to be printed in the same color (slate & orange)
as the 2s/6d stamp, and a new 2s/6d stamp printed in violet and green.
All values were typographed by De La Rue & Co.and perforated 14.
In 1904 the Crown Agents introduced new paper with multiple watermarks known as
the "Multiple Crown & CA".
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