BARBADOS "USED ABROAD" U.P.U. POST CARD ACCEPTED IN ERROR AT DOMINICA 1886 use of Barbados QV 1½d brown UPU Post Card with cross-written text headed "Mar 29" pmk'd Dominica vertical "A07" at Roseau with C/AP 3 86 despatch cds alongside to Miss M.B. Clinckett, Rev. Canon Branch, The Rectory, Barrouallie, St. Vincent with only KINGSTOWN C/AP 8 86 arrival b/stamp, corner fault but a fine example of accepted mail which should not have been accepted without penalty. £275
THE UNIQUE "HALF OPEN BOOTHEEL DUPLEX" CDS COVER, BARBADOS Postal history (See BLOGS section) 1875 local cover to T.P. Goring, above "Rices", St. Philip with last and last recorded use 1872 (1d) blue (SG.52) tied 19mm BARBADOS I/JU 28 75 cds at Bridgetown with alongside previously unseen 21mm BARBADOS JU 28 75 code A cds which has now been shown to be part of the newly introduced cobbled together open bootheel duplex which took up duty 12 days later on JY 10 1875, no backstamps. Ex 'OLIVE BLOSSOM'. £2400
FIRST SAILING with NEWLY INTRODUCED BOOTHEEL DUPLEX, Barbados postal history (See BLOGS section) 1875 full contents entire with blue LOUIS & Co. buckled double oval sender's cachet marked "Via United States" to Messrs de Grinchy Renouf Clement Co., Burgeo, Newfoundland with 1d deep blue and (4d) dull rose-red (SG.66, 49) tied newly cobbled together BARBADOS open bootheel duplex dated A/JY 11 75 rated red "4" with circled black "5" due, backstamped New York and St. Johns AU 12 1875 transits. £750
Code 3 used ST. PHILIP, BARBADOS postal history 1879 locally addressed cover to J.G. Carter, Thurbun, St. Philip with 1d grey-blue (SG.74) tied Bridgetown open bootheel duplex dated A/JA 2 79 showing BARBADOS 3/JA 02 79 (M2-O) arrival alongside address panel, flap removed. Thought one of only two covers to St. Philip with this Parish arrival cds, the other has the arrival as backstamp. £250
BARBADOS stamps: 1935 ½d green Postage Due (SG.D1, Cat.£114), a fine used block of 12 stamps pmk'd GPO 15 NO 43, selvedge at left with 85% split downward perfs. £75
BARBADOS stamps: Panelli type forgery of the imperforate undenominated (1d) in pale blue, used. £20
5 used ST. JOHN, Barbados postmark/cancel (C2) bootheel on 1876 ½d bright green REVERSED CC wmk (SG.72x). £18
BARBADOS to PITCAIRN ISLAND postal history 1946 cover to The Postmaster, Pitcairn Islands with KG6 ½d, 1½d pmk'd 22 MY 46 with PITCAIRN ISLAND POST OFFICE arrival d/ring dated 4 AUG 46. £60
CH: CH: used CHRISTCHURCH, Barbados postmark/cancel (M3) dated OC 18 92 on QV 1d (SG.92), paper wrinkle. £8
11 used ST. LUCY, Barbados postmark/cancel (C2) bootheel on 1876 6d chrome-yellow P.14 (SG.79). £16
11 code used ST. LUCY, Barbados postmark/cancel (M2-R) dated 11/JU 23 84 on QV 1d (SG.92). £8
10 code used ST. PETER, Barbados postmark/cancel (M2-R) dated 10/JU 30 86 on QV 2½d (SG.93). £9
ST. THOMAS, Barbados postmark/cancel (M3) dated DE 10 89 on QV 4d (SG.99). £10
7 code used ST. JAMES, Barbados postmark/cancel (M2-R) dated 7/AU 10 85 on QV 4d (SG.99). £15
ST. JAMES "7" code, Barbados postmark/cancel (M3) dated 7/DE 24 87 on QV ½d (SG.90). £12
11 used ST. LUCY, Barbados postmark/cancel (C2) bootheel on 1876 6d chrome-yellow (SG.79). £15
Code 7 used ST. JAMES, Barbados postal history (M2-R) dated 7/MY 14 85 as arrival on QV ½d Post Card to The Spring Plantation, St. James, reverse printed text headed Bridgetown with buying prices refined sugar, and molasses per gallon. £48
10 used ST. PETER, Barbados postmark (C2) bootheel on 1871 1/- black small star upright (SG.51). £36
CRYPTIC HAND-DRAWN COVER TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE U.S.A., Barbados postal history 1968 airmail cover with hand-drawn and coloured steamship marked "Wup" to Prestiment Johnson (sic), United States, U.S.A. with QE2 25c coral pmk'd CHRIST CHURCH 14 NO 68 showing small red NOV 16 arrival on address panel, sender address on reverse. Lyndon Baines Johnson was the 36th President of the USA 1963 to 1969 taking office after the Kennedy assassination.
£175
4 used ST. GEORGE, Barbados postmark/cancel (C2) bootheel on 1861 (1d) blue (SG.23). £18