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Description: | The first consignment of the 1/- stamp of the 1861-70 series, showing Britannia, were sent out to Barbados by the printers, Perkins, Bacon & Company of London in April, 1863.
The 50,000 stamps should have been printed in brown-black, but on arrival they were found to be printed in blue, the colour of the 1d stamp, in error. (A normal 1/- brown-black is shown here).
Almost all of the errors were returned to England, to be exchanged for new stock in the correct colour. A few examples were kept for a postage label album, and one of these is now in the Tapling Collection. Less than a dozen are known to exist today. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Creator: | Perkins, Bacon & Co. | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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