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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 102

Ship Letter Handstamps
1833 (8 June) entire letter from New York to Raseelle Estate, St. Thomas in the East, rated "1/3" for a double rate inland letter carried up to 100 miles, showing circular-undated "ship letter/jamaica" handstamp (crossed by filing crease at top) and with Kingston datestamp (5.7) on reverse. Previously unrecorded until appearing in the Swarbrick collection, and only a very examples now recorded. Proud SL4 and four years earlier than recorded by him. Photo

Note: Incoming ship letters from America were landed on the north coast and were differently treated to those from Britain that were landed on the south coast, possibly accounting for the rarity of this handstamp

provenance:
Bob Swarbrick, September 1995

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