Receipt
Collection object
1986.0143.18
H. 23.4 W. 19.2
Receipt, printed and ms; black on white. Single sheet printed folded and printed on front and rear, central pages blank. Front, "Stamp Office, Dublin,/ No. [1250 30] day of [Sept] 184[3]/ Received from [Peter O'Brien]/ Distributer of Stamps for [Limerick] the Sum of/ [Fourteen Pounds Fourteen Shillings/ and eleven pence/ Advertisement Duty due by Proprietor of the/ Limerick Chronicle/]/ on Account of Stamp Duties, being the Amount of his/ Remittance for the Week end ("his" to "end" crossed out) [a/ Payment of] the[is day]/ £ [14:14:0/ J. W. Atkinson] Receiver-General./ [H. Cooper] Comptroller./ To the Distributer of Stamps/ [Limerick & Clare]". Reverse printed at centre "To/ The Distributer of Stamps,/ Post Paid. [Limerick]". Has been folded from edges to middle, from bottom up, then top down and sealed. Rectangular red cancellation over address, "Paid/ SE 30E/ 1843"; circular black on reverse as folded, "Limerick/ OC 1/ 1843". Perforation at centre where stuck on spike. Watermark; "S. Evans & Co/ 1841.
S & Co Evans (papermaker)