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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 162

Great Britain Stamps Used in Jamaica
Imperial Issues Authorised for Use on Inland Letters from 1 February 1859
Grange Hill
1859 (7 Feb.) entire letter "p paid" to Kingston, bearing 4d. rose-carmine horizontal pair each cancelled "A01" and with fine "grange hill/jamaica" P2a. datestamp in brownish ink with day, month and "59 of year date in manuscript, 8d. paid for a single rate ½oz. letter carried over 100 miles, Grange Hill being 128 miles from Kingston. This franking and manuscript datestamp unrecorded by Foster. Photo

provenance:
C. Brinkly Turner, September 1942
J. Grant Glassco, November 1969

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