Page 4 - Farrimond Jamaica Miscellany

JAMAICA

The "Laureated Head" of Queen Victoria
Pineapple watermark

Imprimaturs

Until early 1862 printing of postage stamps was carried out under control of the Board of the Inland Revenue,
and imprimatur sheets for this issue were registered at Somerset House on 3rd October 1860.

lmperforate on gummed and The pineapple watermark was
watermarked paper unique to Jamaica

Specimen Overprints

Samuel Type D2 (Nicholson N 1) overprints, used by De La Rue & Co. from 1860-1868 on samples of their
work for sales activities. Only found on these values; four imperforate and three perforated.

lmperforate

L Perforated 14

Samuel Type D5 (Nicholson N5) overprints, used by De La Rue & Co. between 1863 and 1870, and found
mainly on file copies in the De La Rue collection and in a specimen booklet prepared in 1866.

Found on all values except the 4d.