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Jamaica: Postal Stationery

Inland Rates
Frame 48 Stationery
Cards Used for ½d Inland Town Rate (1877 to 1878)
The ½d rate applied to cards sent / delivered in the same town from 1877 until 1939.
Jamaica joined the UPU on 1 April 1877 and there was a requirement to provide Postal Stationery cards.
Insufficient time was available to order and obtain cards from De La Rue, therefore local printings were arranged.
5,727 ½d cards of the two provisional types were printed but the split is unknown.

First Provisional Issue: Lozenge Type

Printed at the Kingston Penitentiary, issued April to June 1877.

Old Harbour
Presumably also posted at
Old Harbour to qualify for
the ½d town rate.

Second Provisional Issue: Floriate Type
This local printing was arranged at the Government Printing Works at Kingston.
There were several printings from July 1877 into 1878.

Kingston
11 Aug 1877
to Kingston