AUSTRALIA B.C.O.F. 1946-48 6d purple-brown variety, SGJ4/a Barbados stamps Gum crease at foot

Gum crease at foot

showing the striking variety 'misplaced perforations and duty tablets'

The Stanley Gibbons catalogue value is £204+

and this stamp in Gibbons Stamp Monthly

writing at school: "When I grow up…I should like to be the official executioner"

AUSTRALIA B.C.O.F. 1946-48 6d purple-brown variety, SGJ4/a Barbados stamps Gum crease at footAustralia British Commonwealth Occupation Force 1946 48 6d purple brown, lower marginal block of 4 showing variety 'Wrong fount 6' on upper left stamp, left pane, R9 4, J4 a. A very fine unmounted mint positional block with full original gum. Very scarce in this form and condition showing the rare variety. These stamps were used by the Australian forces occupying Japan after the Second World War. Initially their post offices supplied unoverprinted