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Jamaica: The Vendryes Provisional
The 2½d rate from Jamaica to Britain, January 1891.
The Postmaster announced the general reduction in the overseas letter rate to 2½d in the Jamaica
Gazette on 1 January 1891:
“On and from 1st January 1891, the letter rate of postage on correspondence addressed to the
United Kingdom, as well as all other places in the Universal Postal Union, will be twopence
halfpenny per half ounce. On all other mail matter the rates of postage are unaltered.”
Its use on letters to Great Britain in January and February 1891 depleted stocks of the first setting of
the provisional.
Mourning cover to England
bearing a 2½d provisional from
setting one, position (row) 4.
Up Park Camp:
13 January 1891.
Kingston: 13 January 1891.
Gosport: 29 January 1891.
Cover to England
bearing a 2½d
provisional from
setting one,
position (row) 4.
Old Harbour:
26 January 1891.
Colchester:
14 February 1891.
