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Auction: 12029 - Specialised Cayman Islands featuring the Graham Booth and John Byl Collections
Lot: 352

Cayman Islands The John Byl Collection Jamaica Used In Cayman Islands "grand cayman/post office" oval datestamp in violet (Type 1) Covers The earliest recorded cover bearing Jamaican adhesives used in the Cayman Islands 1891 (28 Dec.) envelope to A.J. Roberts c/o H.B. Hitchins (the forwarding agent for Caymans mail in Jamaica) to Kingston, Jamaica, bearing 1/2d. green horizontal pair sharing a fine strike of the oval datestamp, the reverse showing sender´s dated cachet of F.N. Lambert & Co. (Georgetown law firm) in bright blue, Montego Bay (4.1) and Kingston (5.1) squared-circle datestamps with manuscript "Got a little leather to make straps for chronometer boxes"; a few small faults in places though very rare, being one of only five outgoing covers with this datestamp. Photo Estimate £ 4,000-5,000 provenance: C.W. Meredith, October 1955 Dr. H.J. Heathcote, December 1968 John Byl, June 1992 Christie´s Robson Lowe, May 1998 "Cammarata", May 2005

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