Books for sale on the philately and postal history of Barbados.
![]() | WEST INDIES West Indian civil censorship devices in World War II. Roses Caribbean handbook no. 2 (1977) 102 large pp, 1st ed., fine in card covers. Ltd. ed. of 250. | £15.00 |
![]() | 1990 (24 Oct) Br Commonwealth sale featuring Edmund Bayley collection of Barbados and Curtis collection of Malaya Harmers 76pp | £6.00 |
![]() | 1979 (12 Jun) B.N.A. and B.W.I with good Barbados and Trinidad. Robson Lowe 60pp + PR. | £3.00 |
![]() | HORRY David The Encyclopaedia of British West Indies Postmarks. King George VI Murray Payne Ltd (2007) 368 large pp. 1st ed., fine in card covers. Detailed fully illustrated listing of all known postmarks with useful rarity guide. Besides the Caribbean islands this work includes Bermuda, British Guiana and British Honduras. | £25.00 |
![]() | BAYLEY Edmund A. The stamps of Barbados Coles Printery, Barbados (1989) 405 large pp + col. plates + loose index pp, clean in slipcase. Ltd. ed. of 1000. Small National P.S. h/s on inside cover. Well researched and highly detailed study of the stamp issues with notes on proof material and Specimens plus listings of postal stationery, revenues and forgeries. | £50.00 |
![]() | 2010 (29 Apr) Barbados. The Frank Deakin Collection. Harmers 83pp + PR. Fine. | £8.00 |
![]() | BURROWS Peter C. British Empire Civil Censorship Devices. World War II. British West Indies and Falkland Islands. - Section 6 C.C.S.G. (2016) 250 large pp (approx.) Revised ed., new in spiral ring binding. Chapters on each island illustrating all known handstamps and censor labels. A revision of Chris Miller's book. | £19.00 |
![]() | DAVIS John G.M. War Tax Stamps of the British Empire First World War. - British West Indies. R.P.S.L. (2009) xii + 400 large pp. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Historical background to the issues, study of the overprints and postal use. | £45.00 |
![]() | 1966 (22-23 Sep) British Commonwealth with supporting Foreign Stanley Gibbons 46pp + plates. Some pen annotations. Good Barbados | £5.00 |
![]() | CAPON Richard and GIBB Bill & STEWART George The Farthing BWISC (2021) 102pp. 1st ed., new in card covers. The humble farthing, which not that many people will remember, was the cost of posting Printed Papers locally in some colonies of the Empire. Most were in the West Indies. This book catalogues all of these stamps and shows some very uncommon uses. The coverage extends outside the West Indies to Malta in particular and also to Fiji. There are instances where farthing stamps/labels were used as revenues in Australia, South Africa and diverse places, such as Heligoland. There are listed examples of the farthing labels used in the Highland Railways of Scotland. Places where farthing stamps were used are all covered and as a special treat there is an appendix showing some rare uses from the Ronald Rong Collection | £18.00 |
![]() | SHEPHERD Anthony The postal censorship in Barbados during the first and second world wars. B.W.I.S.C. (1984) 32pp, 1st ed., fine in card covers. Background history plus detailed listing of all known censor marks and labels. | £6.00 |
![]() | 1975 (28 Nov) Bermuda 1. - Specialised sale of Caribbean Robson Lowe 60pp + PR. | £7.00 |
![]() | FORD Peter C. Early BWI Covers bearing Perkin Bacon adhesives. Barbados B.W.I.S.C. (2022) vi + 236pp. 1st ed., new in card covers. Detailed illustrated listing of all recorded covers in date order. | £28.00 |
![]() | BACON E.D. and NAPIER F.H. Barbados, with a history and description of the star watermarked papers of Messrs. Perkins Bacon & Co. S.G. Philatelic Handbook (1896) xi + 119pp + 3 plates + publisher's ads, 1st ed., clean in original blue cloth. Damage to inside cover where tape removed. Detailed listing of the classic issues plus detailed notes on the Perkins Bacon paper. | £50.00 |
![]() | 1970 (7-8 May) British Commonwealth featuring Leslie S. Wheeler Barbados. Stanley Gibbons Auctions 35pp + 19 plates + PR. Small National PS h/s on cover. | £12.00 |
![]() | 1985 (25 Apr) B.B. Benwell collection of Barbados. Harmers 32pp + plates + PR. | £4.00 |
![]() | 1947 (7 May) Barbados, a specialised stamp sale Robson Lowe Ltd 54pp + PR. Has been previously bound. | £32.00 |
![]() | 1946 (18-19 Nov) Fine and Rare British Empire H.R. Harmer 28pp + 12 plates + PR. Has been previously bound but clean. Fine Barbados, Canada, Jamaica & Newfoundland | £10.00 |
![]() | 1987 (28 May) Barclays collection featuring fine Barbados and other West Indies. Phillips 68pp + PR. | £3.00 |
![]() | ROETT M. Fitz Barbados. The Britannia Issues. B.W.I.S.C. (2013) x + 219 large pp. New in card covers. Detailed guide to these fascinating issues, profusely illustrated in colour. | £15.00 |