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THE PROVISIONALS
Due to the Commissioner’s predilection for ordering stamps in miserly quantities the stocks
of low value stamps were exhausted in May and in October 1908. He had strict instructions not to
issue any more provisional adhesives for postal purposes so he resorted to a surcharge of a Id on 4d
for fiscal purposes, and to manuscript provisionals for postage.
The number of manuscript provisionals that have survived from the episode in May 1908 is
less than a dozen. This cover paid Id to Jamaica and was endorsed accordingly by Miss Parsons. It
was posted on 28th May, arrived in Kingston on 2nd June and Mandeville a day later Ex Byl & Freeland.
Herrn August Kalz
Wilmersdorf bai Berlin
B i n g e r s t r . 8 2 .
Despite the prohibition of the use of the Id on 4d for postal purposes two genuine covers are
known. This registered letter was over franked 5 Yid and was sent from Georgetown to Berlin on 16th
November 1908, where it arrived on 10th December, a transit of 24 days. E. Ex Byl, Cooley & Maisel.
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