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Auction: 12029 - Specialised Cayman Islands featuring the Graham Booth and John Byl Collections
Lot: 356

Cayman Islands The John Byl Collection Jamaica Used In Cayman Islands "grand cayman/p.o." single-ring datestamp (Type 2) Cover 1898 (5 Feb.) envelope to Cedar Valley, Jamaica, bearing Official 1/2d. green with thick overprint horizontal pair (partially separated) sharing a fine complete strike in purple, the reverse with Kingston (25.20 and Cedar Valley (26.2). Surely one of the finest of the six recorded covers with this cancellation, and the last known date of the use of Official stamps in the Cayman Islands. S.G. Z18. Photo Estimate £ 5,000-6,000 provenance: Britton Stitt, May 1970

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