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Auction: 20041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part I - conducted behind closed doors
Lot: 318

1870-83 Watermark Crown CC
Covers
To Italy
1876 (23 July) entire letter from Old Harbour to Genoa, bearing 1d. blue (2, one illegally bisected) and wing-margin 1/- dull brown all tied by indistinct "A61" with a faint matching datestamp alongside, Kingston datestamp (24.7) at upper right and London Paid datestamp at lower left alongside "more to pay" handstamp (Foster D1a, Proud 141 and nine years later than recorded), "1/-" rate marking in red crayon at centre. It would appear that the correct rate was 1/1½d. though that there was a shortage of ½d. stamps at Old Harbour, and whereas Kingston did not approve of the bisect, neither London nor the Italian P.O. raised any charge. A very rare and possibly unique genuine commercial post-1872 bisect, that was accepted. Photo

provenance:
L.C.C. Nicholson, February 1940
Bob Swarbrick, September 1995

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Sold for
£800

Starting price
£800