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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 224

Great Britain Stamps Used in Jamaica
Imperial Issues used at the Post Towns after the arrival of the Obliterators
Overseas Destinations
Germany
1859 (24 Mar.) entire less top and bottom side flaps from St. Ann's Bay to Bremen, bearing 4d. rose-carmine pair and 6d. lilac (imperforate at left) all cancelled "A73", showing manuscript "4" alongside indistinct despatch datestamp, oval-framed "P" and London Paid datestamp (14.4); the pair with faults though a rare and attractive franking and one of only three recorded items franked from Jamaica with G.B. adhesives to Germany during this period, and the sole example from outside Kingston. Foster 131i. Photo

provenance:
Dr. R.H. Urwick, May 1957
Len Britnor

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Starting price
£1200