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Jamaica Registration: Distinguishing Marks: Red Registered.

In 1858 the British Post Office suggested to Jamaica that postmasters should write Registered in red
ink to distinguish registered post as a security measure (listed by Lant as type RC2). This practice,
never universal, was superseded by purpose-made handstamps and blue crossed lines to identify
registered items, but isolated instances persisted into the 1890s.

Incoming registered items before the Postal Union are even scarcer than outgoing Jamaican items.
Incoming registered cover from Great Britain, 1867.

Red ink manuscript
Registered.
2s 4d (2s double
packet rate and 4d
registration).

Filing note:
16 January 1867.

Lombard Street :
· LS obliterator;
· Registered
16 January 67.

Red crayon 40
Black ink 9
(registration
numbers?).

Seal of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia & China, London.

Red Registered on front from Brown’s Town to Great Britain, 1886.

Registered front, with red ink
manuscript Registered, signed
and dated 15/2/86.
1s (8d double rate and 4d
registration).

Brown’s Town:
· 15 February 86;
· R in oval ® (Lant type RS1).

Black ink 4 (registration
number?).

Kingston registered:
16 February 86
(Lant type RC4).

Ex Swarbrick