Jamaica, Checks, Tickets and Tokens, KINGSTON, J.L. Kennedy, uniface brass tool checks by P.C. Vendryes (3), canada dry grape beverage, back stamped d57, 39mm, 2.44g (Lyall –), ginger beer, back stamped 84, 27mm, 1.37g (Lyall –), grape soda artificial flavor and colour added, back stamped 95, 26mm, 1.38g (Lyall –); Kingston Pumping Station, octagonal brass tool check by P.C. Vendryes, kps, back stamped 95, 37 x 36mm, 9.52g (Lyall –); Water Commission, Kingston Pumping Station, brass tool check by P.C. Vendryes, stamped 128, back stamped 26, 28mm, 6.49g (Lyall –); People’s National Party, uniface brass, p.n.p. u r above star, jamaica arise, 38mm, 9.28g (Lyall –); Jamaica Government Railway, uniface brass tool check by American Railway Supply Co, NY, stamped jamaica contract no. w-958-eng-129, 15264, 39mm, 9.72g (Lyall 188) [7]. Generally fine, all rare
£40-60

Provenance: Last gift of R.A. Brandon 1985; others bt R.A. Brandon 1990.

J.L. Kennedy, Darlington street. The Jamaica Railway ran its first trains in 1845 and was bought out by the government in 1879. In 1890 it was sold to the West India Improvement Co but this concern went into receivership and the government again assumed responsibility in 1900. Following independence the railway system went into decline and the last passenger trains ran in 1992