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Jamaica: Llandovery Falls, 1900 - 1901.
The first pictorial Jamaican stamp marked Jamaica’s adoption of the Imperial Penny Post on 24 May
1899, the birthday of Queen Victoria. However, the stamp was not issued until 1 May 1900.
Dr James Johnson provided a number of landscape photographs, which were whittled down to three
sent from Jamaica via the Crown Agents to De La Rue. De La Rue advised that recess-printing would
give the best results and selected the view of Llandovery Falls, on the north coast in St Ann’s Parish.
The stamps were heavily criticised and a change to two-colour printing in 1901 proved no more popular.
Specimens from the De
La Rue archives.
The plates were 60 set.
The dates are those of
the first printings.
Ex Mahfood.
Specimens for the UPU, type D12.
Plate proof on
unwatermarked
paper.
Ex Mahfood.
