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Jamaica: Returned Letter Branch

Office Datestamps
Rectangular Returned Letter Branch Name Rubber Date Stamps

In 1920 the R.L.B. introduced rubber TRD daters instead of the steel daters of which there are three types.

Type A
With no outer frame and is the shortest of the three.
Three examples are known dated between 15 Nov 1920 and 24 Apr 1922.

At Kingston
RLBR Name Type A
of 24 Apr 1922 (LKD)
with ‘UNCLAIMED’
handstamp
and various manuscript notes

Type B

Very similar to Type A but is enclosed in a single line frame measuring, 41 x 28mm,
and ‘JAMAICA’ is 34mm without the period following.
Earliest of three copies recorded all in violet ink between 17 Aug 1922 and 6 Dec 1923.

At Montego Bay
cds of 14 Aug 1922.

At Port Maria
cds of 14 Aug 1922
‘UNCLAIMED’ handstamp.

At Kingston
RLB Name Type B
of 17 Aug 1922 (EKD).