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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 207

Great Britain Stamps Used in Jamaica
Imperial Issues used at the Post Towns after the arrival of the Obliterators
Porus, "A68"
1859 (23 Dec.) entire "Prepaid" and "Post" to Kingston, bearing 1d. rose-red strip of three and a single each cancelled "A68" and with "kingston/jamaica" K8 datestamp alongside, P5a despatch datestamp on reverse. Foster records this unique franking as 126c with one other similar now recorded in the BWISC Encyclopaedia. Photo

provenance:
Dr. R.H. Urwick, May 1957
J. Grant Glassco, November 1969
R.A. Hart, February 1978

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£550

Starting price
£550