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Jamaica: The Queen Victoria Key Plates.
SPECIMEN overprints
Specimen set from the De La Rue Works Progressive Specimen File.
Each value was in sheets 120 set. The dates February 1889 (1d and
2d) and January 1891 (2½d) are those of the first printings.
Ex De La Rue Collection
and Mahfood.
De La Rue supplied 400 copies of each value
overprinted SPECIMEN for the Crown Agents’ own use
and for distribution to the countries of the Postal Union.
1d with the local SPECIMEN overprint, Samuel type J5,
from the Jamaica Post Office collection. Unique.
Ex Hemmings.
