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INTER ISLAND MAIL
A wrapper addressed to Dominica posted in Barbados on 27th October 1856. It was back stamped
with a Griffith & Jeffrey albino embossed cachet and franked with 2 x Id Britannia adhesives. This is very
surprising. It is too early for a 2d inland charge. Charles Freeland who used to own the cover suggested the
second Id was an unofficial Late Fee, but the official facility did not start until 1869 and then the charge
was 1/-. More likely it was franked assuming it to be a 1 oz. letter and when presented at the Post Office it
was deemed to weigh less than V2 oz. Another and less likely possibility is that the clerk made a mistake
and should have marked the cover with 8d to pay instead of 4d. “Derwent” sailed with the cover on the
27th and delivered it in Dominica the following day.
