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Frame 35

JAMAICA – THE 1889 – 91 ISSUES

from the collection of Paul Wright

As the plates of the first Jamaica postage stamps began to wear out, De La Rue replaced them with a key and
duty plate design for both postage and revenue use, the 1d and 2d in 1889 and the 2½d, a new value, in 1891.
The display includes key and duty plate proofs, specimens and plate pieces.

Extracts from
the De La Rue
Striking Book.

Key Plate 3, 1893. 1d Duty Plate 2, 1894.

Pending the De La Rue key plate 2½d, a provisional 2½d on 4d was printed in 1890 – 91 by a local job printer,
Vendryes and Co. The urgency, limitations of the type and the printing press produced many varieties. Each
position of the three settings has distinguishing features.

Notable items in the display include:– Overprint omitted in pair.

• the only surviving complete pane of the first setting;
• three out of ten possible pairs of the overprint omitted in pair with

normal;

• double overprints from each of the three settings. The third setting

double overprint was not recorded by Swarbrick or Sutcliffe.

Double overprints from the first, second and third settings.