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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 26

The Post Town Straight Line Handstamps
Type T1 in Two or Three Lines
1774 (1 Sept.) entire letter from "Bogside" (Scotland?) "pr. (ship) "Clarendon", (Capt.) "Brankston" to Spanish Town, carried privately to Jamaica and apparently landing at Morant Bay and showing largely fine previously unrecorded three-line "port/morant/harbour" handstamp (43x22mm.). A spectacular and highly important exhibition showpiece with no other three-line namestamp having been recorded for Jamaica. Proud PS3 and three months earlier than recorded by him. Photo`

Note: On page 71 of his handbook Foster mentions that Port Morant Post Office was open from at least 1773, though he recorded no mark from this office until 1806

provenance:
Bob Swarbrick, September 1995

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£2,000

Starting price
£2000