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Jamaica Telegraph.
Typographed, De La Rue. Telegraph stamps. Perforation comb 14.
20 October 1879. 1889.
Watermark Crown CC, sideways on 3d. Watermark Crown CA, sideways.
Specimens.
Type D12x.
A perhaps bogus Specimen overprint of
400 specimens of each were produced on watermark CA unknown type and provenance on the 1s.
paper on 1 February 1892. The shade is different from the issued
Telegraph stamps were not postally valid, so it must purple-brown, perhaps a colour
have been an error that these were sent to the UPU and changeling.
distributed to member countries on 15 March 1892, the
only telegraph stamps of any British Colony so sent. Ex Swarbrick.
1904.
Watermark Multiple Crown CA sideways.
