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Jamaica Registration: Insurance.
Cover Insured for £10: 1937.
Registered post could be insured, but according to the Postmaster’s Annual Report, in 1930 only 22
letters sent overseas were insured.
The additional fee payable was set on a scale according to the insured value.
Cover from Kingston to Great Britain, Insured for £10.
The fee for insuring a letter up to a value of £12 was 5d.
10½d: 3½d triple Empire postage, 2d registration and 5d insurance.
Kingston: · registered: 16 October 37 (Lant type RC15, die 6);
· registration label (Lant type RL2a).
Plymouth: 31 October 37.
Frinton-on-Sea: 3 November 37.
Insured letters had to meet stringent conditions, including, as set out in the 1935 P O Guide:
• “The amount for which an article is insured must be written by the sender both in words and
figures, at the top of the address side of the cover, thus:- “Insured for fifteen pounds (£15).””
• “Space must be left between the postage stamps on it and between the postal labels, if any, so
that they cannot serve to hide injuries to the envelope.
Neither this 1937 cover nor the 1954 cover on the next page strictly meets either of these conditions.
