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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 99

The Commercial Rooms Forwarding Agents Handstamps
1824 (24 Dec.) entire letter, headed "Retreat Estates Morant Bay", "p Packet" to Ayr, showing the very rare "too late for" CR5 handstamp (one other example recorded by Foster) and with "commercial rooms" CR6 handstamp on reverse, rated "1/4" formed of 8d. UK inwards Ship Letter charge plus 8d. inland postage from Portsmouth to London plus 1/1d. to Scotland and with Additional "½" handstamp alongside step-type "portsmouth/ship letter" handstamp in red, the reverse with light "commercial rooms" CR6 handstamp, London (21.2), Glasgow (24.2) and Ayr (24.2) datestamps. Photo

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