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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 44

Manuscript Town Markings
1819 (27 Dec.) entire letter, headed "Kingston", "pr. Countess of Chichester Packet" via Falmouth to Glasgow, rated 7½d. Currency and 2/3d. for a Packet letter charge of 1/3d. plus 1/- inland postage from Falmouth to Glasgow and with boxed Additional "½" handstamp, the reverse with manuscript "Green Pond" in red ink and the earliest recorded example in this colour alongside "jamaica" F4 fleuron datestamp and also showing several sets of postman's initials as evidence of the attempts at local delivery with the face panel inscribed "listed" when it would finally have been advertised at the Post Office window. Most unusual. Photo

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