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Jamaica: Location Postmarks

Temporary Rubber Datestamps
Boxed TRDs

Myrtle Bank – Kingston
The first Myrtle Bank Hotel was in central Kingston at Harbour Street,
being one of the hotels built to attract visitors for the 1891 Jamaica Exhibition. Built by Kingston Hotels Co. Ltd.,
it was then leased or sold to Isidore DePass and later to the Elder Dempster Co. Ltd.
It is shown on the undated “Duperly” postcard below.

This was one of the few hotels having a Post Office bureau within the Hotel to provide facilities for the visitors – many of
whom were from Canada and the U.S.A. These postal facilities were intended to be opened for “tourist seasons” - usually from
December to the following April each year.
The Hotel’s bureau first opened in 1901 and initially used a TRD (Die 1).

Myrtle Bank
TRD Die 1 of 8 Mar 1902
Known used 20 Jan 1901 to 6 May 1902

Kingston
cds 8 Mar 1902

At Puerto Rico
Boston and Arroyo
cds of 17 and 28 Mar, 1902