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Jamaica: Returned Letter Branch

Office Datestamps
Double Ring Returned Letter Branch Date Stamps

The second main type of R.L.B. dater is a standard 27mm doubled ringed circle.
The dater is recorded in four variations, struck in red, violet and black inks, between 1906 and 1951.

Type ‘A’ (with a plus sign either side of ‘JAMAICA’)
Only nine examples of this type recorded.

At Kingston
cds of 7 Jan 1909.

At Montego Bay
cds of 8 Jan 1909
‘Unclaimed’
in red crayon.

At Kingston
RLB Type A cds in
red of 9 Feb 1909.

1d inland letter rate that applied from 1907.
Type ‘B’ has a no plus sign either side of ‘JAMAICA’

Known used in 1927 and 1928, only five examples recorded.

At Kingston
cds of 21 May 1927.

At Cross Roads
cds of 21 May 1927.
‘UNCLAIMED’
handstamp
cds of 20 Jun 1927.

Kingston
RLB Type B cds
in violet
of 3 Jun 1927.

½d Commercial papers rate.