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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 114

Official Mail
1857 (9 Sept.) "O.H.M.S." envelope from the Army Pay Office at Kingston to Lieut. Jones, Commanding No. 8 Company, 2nd. West Indian Regiment at Port Royal and marked "Mil Post", turned and addressed to England, unusually paid 6d. in cash and with manuscript explanation "I find I am short of envelopes & it is two miles to Kingston so I have turned an old one", backstamped at London and Leicester. Highly unusual

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