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Auction: 21041 - The "Dubois" Collection of Jamaica Postal History and Stamps - Part II
Lot: 272

Great Britain Used in Jamaica
Imperial Issues used at the Post Towns after the arrival of the Obliterators
St. Ann's Bay, "A73"
1859 (29 Mar.) double rate entire rate to Kingston, bearing 6d. lilac pair with each stamp twice cancelled "A73", despatch P11 and indistinct Kingston datestamps on reverse. Foster does not record a double rate cover to Kingston with this franking, and the sole example recorded in the BWISC Encyclopaedia. Photo

provenance:
L.O.Trivett, May 1933
L.C.C. Nicholson, February, 1940
J. Grant Glassco, November 1969

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Sold for
£350

Starting price
£320