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Jamaica Queen Victoria Laureated Head: Crown CA 1883 -97.
2d value, Universal Colour Scheme, issued in February 1885, superseded in 1889.
20 printings invoiced between 21 January 1885 and 18 February 1888, 4,199,520 stamps.
Slate-grey. Grey. Slate.
2d slate CA on cover from Spanish Town to Montego Bay, 1887, paying the 1872 inland rate of 2d.
Island Record
Office:
3 December 87.
Spanish Town:
A76;
3 December 87.
The 1d local Kingston rate was extended in 1884 and 1886 to towns along the Jamaica Railway,
but rates such as this Spanish Town to Montego Bay remained 2d until the all-island 1d rate of 1889.
