Receipt
Collection object
1986.0143.01
H. 25.3 W. 20.0
Receipt, printed and ms. Black on white. Single sheet, folded in half and printed on first and last side only. First side; "Stamp Office, Dublin,/ No. [1249 27] day of [September] 183[6]/ Received from [Peter O'Brien]/ Distributer of Stamps for {Limerick] the Sum of/ [Seventy Six Pounds nineteen shillings/ and two pence]/ on Account of Stamp Duties, being the Amount of his/ remittance for the week end[ed] the [17th Inst./ {ps} [76.19.2/ Robert Tyrrell] Receiver-General/ [H. Cooper] Comptroller./ To the Distributer of Stamps./ [Limerick & Clare]"; two further amounts in pencil under the main figure, giving sum of £192.7.11; annotated at left side in different hand reading up, but unclear. Final page "To/ Distributer of Stamps,/ [Limerick]/ Post Paid." Back forms the address; both ends folded inward, bottom upwards then top down and sealed. Rectangular red cancellation above address "Paid/ SP28E/ 1836"; second circular black cancellation on reverse as folded "Limerick/ SE 29/ 1836"; also marked in ink "Receiver Genrls./ Acquittances for Qr. Ending 5 Janry.1837" and unclear pencil note to right of address. Hole in paper where seal opened. The front bottom right corner has been folded upwards and a set of instructions has been written on the triangular piece thus formed. Watermark, crown over cartouche with loop inside "IR" under, and parallel lines.
J Rump (papermaker)