Postage stamps of Jamaica

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00:09Postage Stamps of Jamaica

00:12The Jamaica 6D Abolition of Slavery Postage Stamp

00:18was prepared for issue in June 1921

00:22but cancelled shortly before issue

00:24due to political unrest and the controversial subject matter.

00:28By some estimates, 416,000 stamps were printed

00:33and sent to the island in the form of three shipments.

00:37The first two consignments got to Jamaica around the same time

00:40and were incinerated at the General Penitentiary in Kingston

00:44on July 2, 1921.

00:47The final consignment, arriving in October, was similarly destroyed.

00:52The Crown agents were then instructed to destroy

00:54the 7,220 stamps held in their possession.

00:58Along with about 740 stamps distributed via the Universal Postal Union.

01:04Two blocks of four were preserved.

01:06One block being given to King George V

01:08while the other became part of the official collection

01:12held at the General Post Office in Kingston.

01:15This block mysteriously disappeared from the post office's vaults

01:19and reappeared sometime later as four singles.

01:22As this stamp was so close to issuance,

01:25specimens were sent to the Universal Postal Union as usual,

01:29a number of which survive.

01:32The Jamaica 1956 One Pound Chocolate and Violet

01:37was a planned but unissued Jamaican postage stamp.

01:40The stamp's design was identical to the King George VI stamp issued in 1949,

01:47which depicted a scene of workers rolling cigars by hand.

01:52But the vignette image of King George VI replaced with that of Queen Elizabeth II.

01:58Although the stamp was abandoned after printing and not issued,

02:03there are seven copies in existence.

02:05It was replaced by a one-pound stamp depicting Jamaica's coat of arms.

02:10The Jamaica 1968 Human Rights Stamps were a set of three postage stamps

02:15produced to mark the 1968 Human Rights Year.

02:20The Jamaican Postal Administration approved the designs by Jennifer Toomes.

02:24Upon receipt, there were objections to the look of the graphics of the hands in black and white.

02:31A new design, using brown hands, was printed locally following weeks of debate.

02:37Examples of the unissued stamps are known to exist

02:40because they have been distributed to philatelic journalists by the Crown agents

02:44and they were not recalled.

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