My few words for this Bulletin must be about our Study Circle meeting at Congress. This was held on Thursday evening, May 27th to a full house and we were, indeed, very fortunate in having a large room to hold such an enthusiastic audience. Many of our members and others visiting Congress contributed a most interesting and varied assortment of sheets and single items. These included not only a number of rarities but also many unsolved problems which led to most interesting discussions during the course of the evening
JAMAICA was well represented and the surprise item for me was a copy of the 2d. rose, having the Pine watermark and the rare Type H postmark "A79" exhibited by Mr. L.A. Courtney, one of our members who kindly loaned it to me for comparing. with my 6d. Pine watermark with the same postmark. I found it corresponded in every respect and so far as I am aware this is the only other copy to have been discovered. The Type H postmark was damaged in use as shown by copies of the 3d. and 6d. CC watermark in my collection, in which the "7" is completely missing. It should be emphasized that two other postmarks of "A79" appeared later but they are very different from the rare Type H postmark with thin bars which was in use for a fairly long period.
There may be others still to be found in many collections - if you know what to look for - so I wish you all good hunting.