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These bootheel cancels, issued in 1863, offer a spectacularly colourful display when collected on the Britannia issues. The “2” and the “9” are the most elusive, and “10” and “11” the commonest. There are many stamp/bootheel combinations, and many rarities. Fun for many years!
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(Updated 27 April 2020 thanks to emails from Ed Barrow and Mike Kitson) It is becoming clear that not only the stamps of Great Britain were used at their postal agencies abroad but a more formal arrangement existed covering mail arrangements to and from those territories in the Caribbean basin. Early Jamaica QV stamps exist pmk’d “C51” (St. Thomas), “D60” and red “D63” (whereabouts unknown), “E88” (Colon) and one 1876 ingoing cover shows a spectacular Cuba 50c, Great Britain 4d. and Jamaica 2d combination.
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(25 April 2020) Mail which has travelled across the Atlantic and cannot be delivered is found with “Unclaimed”, “Deceased”, “Left the Island” etc handstamps or manuscript endorsements and assumed to be returned to sender, when known, free of further charge. Mail which has crossed “both ways” falls into two groups. Unpaid mail, as a result of the Act of 1847 made it compulsory for the sender to pay postage on returned unpaid letters, and short-lived handstamps surmounted by a Crown and inscribed “The Party to whom this letter/is addressed has not Called for it/(date)" were applied at London, Edinburgh, or Dublin. The second group is prepaid additional postage adhesive mail, with illustrations from Barbados (JU 9 1860), and Trinidad (MR 8 1864).
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