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Jamaica: Location Postmarks

Temporary Rubber Datestamps
Boxed TRDs

Constant Spring – Kingston
Constant Spring Hotel was 6 miles from the centre of Kingston, towards the mountains.
Owned by the American Hotels Co. Ltd. It was built to attract visitors for the 1891 Jamaica Exhibition.
The hotel continually failed to make money, passing through several ownerships.
The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1923, was rebuilt but became a convent school in 1940.

This was one of the few hotels having a Post Office bureau within the Hotel to provide facilities for the visitors – many of
whom were from Canada and the U.S.A. These postal facilities were intended to be opened for “tourist seasons” - usually
from December to the following April each year.
The Hotel’s bureau first opened in 1900 and initially used a TRD (Die 1).

Constant Spring
TRD Die 1 of 30 Apr 1902
Known used 2 Mar 1900
to 16 Apr 1901
&19 Dec 1901
to 7 Aug 1902

Kingston
cds 30 Apr1902