Page 116 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL

Jamaica

Queen Victoria
Laureated

Head:
Crown CA

1883-97.

3d, upper left pane.

In the 240 set, 4 pane
sheets of the
laureated head, plate
numbers appear at
the upper right and
lower left, and current
numbers at the upper
left (as here 11) and
lower right.

The watermark of the
Crown CA paper,
when cut to a printer’s
sheet to take 240
stamps, has the
words CROWN
AGENTS in the left
sheet margins and
FOR THE COLONIES
in the right sheet
margins. The words
CROWN AGENTS
also read across the
central horizontal
gutter between upper
and lower panes.
There are no words in
the top and bottom
margins, but crosses
appear in the extreme
corners.
This top left pane of a
sheet of 240 has the
word AGENTS in the
left margin reading
upwards and the word
CROWN in the bottom
gutter between panes.