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Jamaica: Accountancy, Underpaid & Tax

PAID Marks
Frame 40 Accountancy, Underpaid & Tax
Rectangular JAMAICA PAID / Date

Astley Clerk wrote to the
Postmaster with this
28 January 1893 red
rectangular Jamaica Paid
marking (Proud Type PD14)
on a piece of newspaper
addressed to Messrs Louise
Winckler & Co.

This reply by George Pearce,
Postmaster from 1891 to 1903,
explained that the mark was
used on newspapers in bulk to
show that payment had been
made by postage stamps on
the wrapper. Known
8 Feb 1889 to 7 Apr 1897.