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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 185

Great Britain Stamps Used in Jamaica
Imperial Issues used at the Post Towns after the arrival of the Obliterators
Green Island, "A46"
1859 (10 Oct.) entire "p post" to Kingston, bearing 4d. rose-carmine pair sharing light "A46" for a single letter franked at the 8d. rate and carried over 100 miles, two smudgy and arrival (11.10) datestamps on reverse. Only two such frankings from Green Island to Kingston recorded by Foster. Photo

provenance:
L.O. Trivett, May 1933
J. Grant Glassco, November 1969
N. Brassler, June 1996

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£350

Starting price
£240