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Jamaica Booklets.

George V ½d and 1d. Sixth booklet, 1930 to 1936. Issue date not recorded.
This was issued at first in parallel with the fifth booklet so that from 1929 to 1932 customers had a
choice of booklets with or without 1½d stamps. The sixth booklet continued the standard two value
makeup: two panes of six of the 1927 ½d and three panes of six of the 1929 1d (die I or II).

Four printings of 45,410 invoiced between 15 August 1930 and 14 August 1931 used 1d die I; and
four printings of 69,000 invoiced between 11 August 1933 and 22 September 1936 used 1d die II.

Within this single type were two major changes, poorly recorded and researched:
• the covers changed from bright red enamelled to soft pale pink; this may have been either
in 1933, when the Colony asked for a new colour so that the adverts would be clearer; or
in 1935, there is a De La Rue note “type (b) booklets to be prepared in future” but no explanation;
• postage rates as well as adverts appeared on interleaves, possibly from the 1933 airmail rates.

An empty booklet tentatively identified as a sixth booklet
from the early 1930 - 31 printings, which would be one of
the last booklets with red enamelled covers.

The selvedges show marginal rules of the 1927 ½d and
the blank margins that are found with the 1929 1d. The
covers and many of the interleaves differ from any fourth
booklet. A new advertiser in this booklet – Charley’s – is
also found in later booklets.

The first booklets with soft pink covers.

An issued sixth booklet with five stamps remaining.

Tentatively identified as a sixth booklet from the 11 August
1933 printing, the first with pink covers.

Covers and adverts are redesigned.
Inside front: Nestle’s Milk.
Back cover: Come to Myers… Inside: L A Tropical.
Five interleaves: one blank; Charley’s for Genuine Old
Jamaica Rum; Kinkead, Ltd; Get it at Issa’s; Austin…John
Crook; Sheaffer Lifetime…Popular Jewellery Store.
Only Kinkead and Sheaffer are as used before.

The first booklets with postage rates.

An issued sixth booklet with four stamps remaining.

Tentatively identified as a sixth booklet from the 5 September
1934 printing, as it gives the airmail rates applying only
between 18 December 1933 and 21 October 1934.
Covers as before, except inside back: Will’s Gold Flake.

Seven interleaves: postal rates inland; Charley’s (revised);
Kinkead, Ltd (as before); Issa’s (revised); Postal Rates
Oversea; Austin…John Crook (as before); Air Mail Rates.