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Jamaica Registration: Certificates of Posting, Kingston.

                    Certificate of posting of a registered letter at Kingston, 1891.
                                                                                           The heading ‘KINGSTON
                                                                                           JAMAICA’ shows that this
                                                                                           form was for use only in
                                                                                           Kingston. The form does not
                                                                                           closely resemble British
                                                                                           forms and may have been
                                                                                           locally designed and printed.

                                                                                           Printing code, 100 B. 200 p.-
                                                                                           14.8.90.; at least one earlier
                                                                                           printing is known.
                                                                                           Pre-printed registration
                                                                                           number 127. The perforations
                                                                                           at the left show where the
                                                                                           counterfoil was attached.
                                                                                           The clerk entered the date,
                                                                                           23 3 91, and the addressee,
                                                                                           Miss Ena Sheering, c/o Rev
                                                                                           Etherington, Torquay. The
                                                                                           certificate was then signed by
                                                                                           the customer, R Sherring,
                                                                                           and the Window Clerk.
                                                                                           Kingston registered: 23
                                                                                           March 91 (Lant type RC4).

            Ex Swarbrick.


                                  Certificate of posting of a registered letter at Kingston, 1894.
                              A later printing of the Kingston type certificate, without printing code.


            Pre-printed registration
            number 80.
            The clerk entered the
            date, 5 12 94, and the
            addressee, D.
            Appleton, New York.
            The certificate then
            records the customer
            (the letter was posted
            per Saml Wright,
            probably a servant)
            and is signed by the
            Window Clerk, J A J
            Smith.

            Kingston registered:
            5 December 94
            (Lant type RC6).
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