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36295_250
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Xtras
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Item Information
Record Type:
Auction Catalogues & Private Treaty
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Who Name:
Swarbrick (vendor)
Date:
29 Sep 1995
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Sale: 501
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 Pages: 177 Size: 4 MB
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Title:
Lot 250 THE SHORT-LIVED SAVANNAH LA MAR "Paid 6d" MANUSCRIPT PROVISIONAL; 25th Feb. 1862 E (horiz. filing crease barely detracts) to Liverpool (same correspondence as the previous two lots), without any postage stamps but with a bold purple manuscript "Paid 6" on the front, backed up with slightly overstruck Kingston "JAMAICA/PAID" and "LONDON/PAID" c.d.s.'s. Strange things were happening at this P.O. at this time (see the Dec. 1994 BCPJ article which illustrates this cover), and it seems that
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Jamaica Laureated Head of Queen Victoria 1860-63 PINEAPPLE WATERMARK ISSUE Covers
Description:
stamped letters were discouraged and the old system of cash-paid letters was reintroduced for a short time. This cover and those in the following two lots are the only examples of this rare Provisional to have been recorded to date. Another of Bob's additions to our knowledge of the Postal History of Jamaica. Very rare. PHOTO
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