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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 38

The Post Town Straight Line Handstamps
Type T2 in a Single Line
1794 (14 Dec.) entire letter headed "Greenwood Estate, St. Mary's" overland to Kingston and then via London "Pr. Packet" to Scotland, rated "7½" inland postage for a single letter travelling under 100 miles, "1/-" UK inward Packet rate plus "7d" inland charge from London to Scotland and showing, on reverse, very fine previously unrecorded "bagnals" PS1, 6th. Type "iamaica", London transit (26.2) and faint Scottish arrival datestamp (4.3) in red. Photo

Note: Bagnals was in a plantation village of St. Mary which assumed the name of its proprietor and was open in 1810, though from which no postal marking was recorded outside the Post Office proof books in London. The Post Office was closed by 1 April 1839

provenance:
Bob Swarbrick, September 1995



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