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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 203

Great Britain Stamps Used in Jamaica
Imperial Issues used at the Post Towns after the arrival of the Obliterators
Plantain Garden River, "A62"
1859 (15 Mar.) "No 5 Registered Letter" entire letter to Kingston, bearing 4d. rose-carmine and 6d. lilac both neatly cancelled "A62", despatch P5 and Kingston (16.3) datestamps on reverse. A very rare franking with Foster recording only one Money Letter with this franking from this office, and the earliest Registered letter of the thirteen recorded in the BWISC Encyclopaedia. Photo

provenance:
Gaston

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Starting price
£650