Page 18 - Farrimond Jamaica Miscellany

JAMAICA

Postal history up to UPU membership
Packet mail

Packet letters to the United Kingdom

On transference of control of the Post Office to Jamaica, the existing sixpence packet letter rate to the United
Kingdom was maintained, this having been in place since 1854, with compulsory prepayment from 1 st April 1858.

1861 Wrapper from Kingston to Edinburgh
Carried on RMSP Teviot to
St. Thomas and then on
RMSP Tasmanian to
Southampton

Kingston: Double A01 numeral
obliterator (rarely used)
Also K8 double arc datestamp
of 10 March 1861
London: Red single ring paid
eds of 30 March 1861
Edinburgh: Single ring eds of
31 March 1861 on the back

Provenance: ex Wood

1861 Wrapper from Montego Bay to Liverpool

Wrapper of a single rate
packet letter carried on
RMSP Trent to St.
Thomas where it was
transferred to RMSP
Seine for Southampton

Montego Bay: A57 numeral
obliterator
Also P11a single ring eds of
23 July 1861 on the back
Kingston: K8 double arc
datestamp of 24 July 1861
London: Red single ring paid
eds of 13 August 1861
Liverpool: Single ring eds of
14 August 1861 on the back
Provenance: ex. Swarbrick