Postage stamps, booklets, flight, censored and maritime mail and philatelic covers of Barbados for sale.
Barbados philately is currently one of the most popular areas in the West Indies. There is not much pre stamp postal history available but the large range of classic issues more than make up for this. A collection of classic Barbados stamps can be stunning.
Collecting the Parish postmarks of Barbados is a challenge especially the early numeral cancels.
For those collecting Barbados stamps I can recommend Edmund Bayley, Stamps of Barbados handbook which I have available. Barbados Post Office Markings to 1981 by Clarke, Radford and Cave is a must for postmark collectors.
Post and packing is extra but does not increase however many items are ordered. Inland £1, Europe £1.50 and Overseas £2
![]() ![]() | 1686 (26 Mar) Barbados local EL from Ben Cryer to Barbara Newton Clean and attractive. The letter slightly trimmed at right but readable. Part of a correspondence from the Newton family who owned estates in Barbados. | £495.00 |
![]() | 1752 (25 Jun) EL from Simon Hunter in Barbados to James Smith in Edinburgh, redirected to Cupar Angus with London Bishop mark and several rate marks. Fine. Long letter about D. Henry Smith, a young man who arrived in Barbados a year before and has struggled to make ends meet. An early letter from the island. | £240.00 |
![]() | 1805 (20 Dec) EL from Brigadier General Thomas Picton in London to General Maitland, Governor of Grenada. Carried 'by favour' by an army captain travelling to Barbados on H.M.S. Illustrious and then put in the post. Fine s/l 'BARBADOES,' rated 4d. Fine. 3pp letter. Picton who had been the first governor of Trinidad was then in London facing charges of cruelty and torture of a free mulatto girl, Luisa Calderón committed while in office. | £475.00 |
![]() ![]() | 1859 (27 Dec) Barbados 1859 6d rose red on cover to London. 3 god margins, tied by obliterator. Double arc cds on reverse. Fine. | £195.00 |
![]() | 1861-70 rough perf 14-16, 6d rose red (SG29), unused. | £36.00 |
![]() | 1861-70 rough perf 14-16, 6d orange(SG33), fine o.g. A pale shade. | £65.00 |
![]() | 1861-70 rough perf 14-16, 1/- brown black (SG34), fresh o.g. | £15.00 |
![]() | 1861-70 Barbados 1/- black (SG35) on small piece tied by bootheel cancel, f.u. | £8.00 |
![]() | 1873 3d (SG63) off centre as usual, fresh, part o.g. Cat £325 | £70.00 |
![]() | 1875-80 Crown CC, perf 14, 6d chrome yellow (SG79), fresh o.g. | £40.00 |
![]() | 1882-6 Crown CA, Barbados 3d deep purple (SG95), l.m.m. Cat £120 | £40.00 |
![]() | 1882-86 Barbados 4d pale brown (SG98), marginal strip of 5, overall gum toning. Cat £115 | £12.00 |
![]() | 1892-1903 Barbados 10d stamp design used on advertising label circa 1930, gummed. | £4.00 |
![]() | 1892-1903 Barbados 2/6d (SG114), v.f.u. Cat £65 | £22.00 |
![]() ![]() | 1900 ANNA REGINA double circle village cds cancel on British Guiana 2c on cover to Barbados. Worn at corners. | £18.00 |
![]() | 1904-7 Trinidad 1d pair on piece cancelled by fine boxed 'Posted on Board' applied in Barbados. | £4.00 |
![]() | 1906 Barbados Nelson Centenary 1d (SG147) with re-enty, pos. 26, f.u. | £4.00 |
![]() | 1906 Grenada 1d with fine boxed 'Posted on Board' cachet, applied in Barbados. | £3.00 |