JAMAICA

JAMAICA.

Definitive stamps.
Rafting in the Rio Grande and portrait of the Queen Elizabeth II.
Eleventh stamp in a set of 16, issued on 15.11.1956.
Face value: 1'6 Jamaican shilling.
Printed by De La Rue & Co. Ltd.
Printing: Recess.
Size: 35 x 25 mm.

Catalogs
- Michel No. 171.
- Scott No. 169.
- StampWorld No. 174.
- Stanley Gibbons No. 169.
- Yvert et Tellier No. 176.

The Rio Grande, one of the largest rivers in Jamaica, found in the parish of Portland, and empties into the Caribbean Sea on the north coast of the island. It was named Río Grande (“Big River”) by the Spanish, who controlled Jamaica in the 15th and 16th centuries.