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Auction: 22025 - Stamps and Covers of the World
Lot: 340

Jamaica
Telegraph Stamps
1879 proposed designs for the 3d. and 1/-, both with hand-drawn frames and with head in blue seemingly cut from die proofs, affixed to page headed "Adhesive Stamps Required for the use of the Telegraph Branch of the Jamaica Post Office", endorsed "A true copy".
The 1/- is listed as "Design. English fourpence Telegraph Stamp" "Size. English Five Shilling" "Colour English One Pound" "Value Marked. Jamaica Telegraphs / One Shilling"
The 3d. is listed as "Design. English One Penny / Telegraph Stamps" "Size. Queen's head to be in proportion" "Colour. Lavender, same as Dominica W.I. One penny Postage Stamps" "Value Marked. Jamaica Telegraphs / three pence".
With further "N.B. to be put up in square blocks of Twenty Shillings in value, as English Postage Stamps".
With a 1879 (7 April) letter on Crown Agents headed notepaper to Downing Street requesting postage stamps for the government of Ceylon 500 sheets "duty 16 Cents" and 500 sheets "24 Cents". Generally fine, the 1/- design with small oil mark nevertheless very rare and unusual. Photo

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