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Jamaica Registration: Registration Labels.
Handstamps as substitute registration labels.
Spanish Town, 1937 – 38.
Spanish Town temporary rubber registration etiquette handstamp (Lant type RLP1), 28 December
1937, the earliest known date. The black ink corroded the material, and later strikes are distorted.
On internal
registered cover
to Kingston.
3d (1d inland
rate and 2d
registration).
Spanish Town:
· 28 December
37;
· Registration
handstamp
(Lant type
RLP1).
Kingston
Registered:
28 December
37 (Lant type
RC 15 die 5).
Kingston, 1937.
A Kingston temporary registration etiquette handstamp (unrecorded by Lant; Proud R58) is known
only on 1937 Coronation first day covers, 12 May 1937. It may have been a measure forced by the
volume of philatelic post to be registered outstripping the supply of regular labels. This was also the
first day when the registered datestamp RC15 die 6 was brought into use.
On registered first day
cover to Australia.
5d (philatelic, but would
more than cover 2½d
double Empire rate and
2d registration).
Kingston registered:
· 12 May 37
(Lant type RC15 die 6);
· Registration
Handstamp, MS 57.
MS number 154.
Adelaide:
22 September 37.
Alberton:
22 September 37.
