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Jamaica Revenues: The Moore Town Covers, 1901.

The cover on this page is further evidence that the Moore Town covers were philatelic confections.
Here the sender has used an impressed adhesive revenue 3d, from Group 1, code J. The addressee
is again Dr Nicholas and the cancel again Moore Town, 31 January 1901.

Some office-holder with access to revenue stamps has produced these covers. An F L Nicholas was
first appointed as a second-class clerk in 1890 and by 1910 was a Junior Assistant Tax Collector
(Handbook for Jamaica 1891-2 and Commercial Directory 1910). No Dr Nicholas has yet been
traced, but an Emmanuel Nicholas lived in Moore Town in 1891 (Jamaica Gazette 1891).

These covers may have travelled through the post and whatever their status they offer the only
examples of even contrived postal use of direct embossed and impressed revenues.

Another direct embossed vermilion 1d.
Struck on a piece of laid, watermarked paper, with the post office cancel of Moore Town, 4 February 1901.
This may be from a document or from another cover, or a by favour strike on a piece of paper.