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Jamaica Revenues: Authorised Postal Use After 1887.

The Law of 1887 made postage and revenue stamps interchangeable. Subsequent postage stamp
designs were inscribed ‘Postage and Revenue’. The printing of separate adhesive revenue stamps
(the three existing series, Customs stamps in the Arms design, the shilling value Judicials and the
penny revenue stamps) ceased. But leftover stocks could be and were used up. This led to a brief
golden age of revenue stamps used on cover, assisted by philatelists.

The Arms design Customs stamps.
The franking is probably philatelic; 1d was the correct ½oz rate, then steps in whole pence.

1½d blue on
white on cover
to Kingston.

Hagley Gap:
23 December
92.

Kingston:
24 December
92.

Philatelic, but possibly the only surviving cover bearing imperforate revenue stamps, 1895.

Registered cover
franked with an
imperforate pair of
3d Arms design
Customs stamps.
The rate franking
is implausible: 4d
is 4 times inland
postage plus 2d
registration = 6d.

Spanish Town:
17 August 95;
R in oval.

Registration
number 63.

Kingston
registered:
17 August 95.

Ex Cameron;
Potter.