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Jamaica: George VI Commemoratives.

Recess, Waterlow. New Constitution, 20 August 1945. Perforation line 12½.

Photographic essays, signed by the designers, alongside the issued stamps.

Designs were invited from the public and sifted by a committee of the Institute of Jamaica, the
colony’s pre-eminent cultural body, who made recommendations to the Governor.

Specimens type W9.

Courthouse, Falmouth, House of Assembly,
built 1817. Spanish Town, 1762.

The Institute of
Jamaica’s own
three designs
featured buildings,
including their own,
based on etchings
or photographs.
These were signed
by the artist Claude
DeSouza (1900-52).

The 3d
design,
Institute of
Jamaica, was
also used for
the 10s.