Page 389 - Jarvis & Wright: Jamaica Display to RPSL

Jamaica Registration: Overseas, 1888.

The registration fee was 4d to Postal Union members from Jamaica joining in 1877 until 1893.
Registered cover to Sierra Leone, 1888.

Sierra Leone joined the Postal Union in 1879. Correspondence between Jamaica and West Africa
arose because the West India regiment served there, fighting the Ashanti wars.

Revenue stamps pay some or all of the postage on both these covers, as authorized from 1887.

1s (double 4d UPU
rate and 4d
registration).

Kingston:
· registered: 4 July 88
(Lant type RC4);
· R in oval ®

(Lant type RS1).

London: 22 July 88.
Liverpool: 24 July 88.
Freetown:16 August
88.

Three registration
numbers.

Ex Vokins.

1888 registered front to Constantinople. Turkey joined the Postal Union in 1875.

1s 8d (4 x 4d UPU
rate and 4d
registration).

Kingston
· registered:
16 October 88;
· R in oval ®
(Lant type RS1).

Liverpool:
3 November 88.

British Post Office
Constantinople:
9 November 88.