Recently I purchased a pre-adhesive straight line PORT ANTONIO (Nicholson Type 3). It is a receiving cancel being addressed to 64th Regiment, Spanish Town, Jamaica, the addressee's name having been removed. It was mailed from BRADFORD, Yorks, on July 30, 1837, where 2/2d postage was paid. Nicholson reports in the handbook that this cancellation was first known, used in 1838, yet this must be an 1837 cancel unless the boat took five months, which seems highly improbable to me. The Die was sent out from the London G.P.O. on February 7th, 1833. Are there earlier known cancels than 1837 for PORT ANTONIO, Type 3 ? "
NOTE : By the word 'Die' Mr. Gildart means, of course, obliterator. (Ed.).
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