Located either in trains or vans and used to sort and cancel mail on the move
Cancel Type Potter No. EKD LKD Cancel Notes Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
R1/29 Reads: T.P.O. in a rectangle
without date or other wording. EKD strike was in
purple. Temporary steel datestamp Reads: T.P.O. / JAMAICA and appears
to have been used on the railway. May be two fine and close
rings but cannot be separated even on early
strikes. Double Ring Datestamp Two fine single rings close together.
Year often added in manuscript. A squarish "O". Used on the
Kingston to Montego Bay line. Double Ring Datestamp As previous die but the full stop after
O of T.P.O. is very low. A round "O". Used on
the Kingston to Port Antonio line. Double Ring Datestamp Reads: T.P.O. / JAMAICA with
the index 1, 2 or 3
above the date. Appears to have been used on the Kingston to
Montego Bay line. Birmingham. Type - B1 No Potter listing for 9700.06, but Proud
and Horry list two forms of the Type B1 mark. Last "A" is
wide. Used on Kingston to Port Antonio line. Date shown is
proof date! Birmingham. Type - B1 Last "A" is narrow. Date shown is proof date! Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: T.P.O.-4 used in
greater Kingston Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: T.P.O.-5. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: T.P.O. 2 /
JAMAICA. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: "T.P.O. 1 / JAMAICA". Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*WI/37e Reads: T.P.O. 2 / JAMAICA
W.I.. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: T.P.O. 3 /
JAMAICA. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: T.P.O. 4 / JAMAICA.
Used in the greater Kingston area. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: T.P.O. 5 /
JAMAICA. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/37 Reads: T.P.O. 6 /
JAMAICA. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/46a Reads: T.P.O. / Mandeville -
Savanna La-mar. Temp. Rubber Handstamp. Type -
O3*/46b Reads: MONTEGO BAY - ST ANNS
BAY / JAMAICA with T.P.O. 3 inserted above
the date. Known with the 3 missing.
Note: Potter has no listing for 9700.06 or for 9700.11, 9700.12 and 9700.19.