Civil Censorship in Jamaica WWII

[Alan Baker]

Not strictly a forces cover but attached is one from Jamaica in December 1941. It bears a censorship label (without number) and a stamp No 12.

My query is that this stamp seems to bear a letter "F" after the number. I cannot find any reference to this in my very old (1982) copy of The Military Mail of Jamaica (Roses Handbook No 5)

Any ideas or where I can go to find out?

[Tony Walker]

Hi Alan

You might like to send the query to Darryl Fuller : editor@wipsg.org who edits the Journal of the recently amalgamated society for Caribbean philately The West Indies Philatelic Study Group.

And/or to Mr Duane Larson : dlarson283@aol.com who is the Jamaican study group organiser

Cheers
Tony

[Alan Baker]

Thanks Tony. I'll give them a go

[Peter Harvey]

Hi Alan,

I looked this up in the Encyclopaedia of Jamaican Philately Vol 9 Military Mails which has a small section of civil censorship and refers to publication by the CCSG, specifically Peter Burrows. They reference to the standard number type and show a variety with a capital letter A in front of the number, but nothing like this.

I have emailed your picture to Peter Burrows, hope this is okay and I will let you know if he replies.

Peter Harvey

[Michael Dobbs]

Peter

With reference to your response below - whilst they illustrate a cover with A 27 no mention is made of the A prefix - it is recordfed in the text as simply 27 as though the A is not relevnt or even there!

I'll be taking my copy to our meeting on Saturday for Alan to see.

Mike

[Peter Harvey]

Alan,

Had the below back from Peter Burrows, can you please confirm the date?

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Hi

It appears to be a new handstamp, together with A12 illustrated in the encyclpaedia

I will be recording them as H5.2 A27 and H5.3 12F

Can you please let me know date of use

Peter Burrows

[Michael Dobbs]

Peter

Thanks for what you have done - we both spoke with Peter Burrows at our meeting yesterday and I showed him the illustrations in the Jamaica book.  As a result Alan will be in direct contact with him.

Mike

[Alan Baker]

I have heard back from Paul Farrimond, co-author of the book Michael showed me and he said it is not an "F" but a mark the result of dirt on the stamp. He copied another example to me which seems to support this.

I asked him about the "A" on the example in the book but have not heard back

The date of the franking is DE 28 41