Receipt
Collection object
1986.0143.36
H. 23.34 W. 18.3
Receipt, printed/ ms; black on white. Single sheet folded in half and printed on first and last side only. First, "Stamp Office, Dublin,/ No. [824 27th] day of [June] 185[3]/ Received from [P. O'Brien]/ Distributer of Stamps for [Limerick]/ the sum of [Twenty three pounds fourteen shillings]/ on Account of Stamp Duties, being the Amount of his/ Remittance for the Week ended the ("his" to "ended the" crossed out)[Advt duty due/ by the Limerick Chronicle]/ £[23:14:0/ Robert Tyrrell] Receiver-General./ [E. ? Powell] Comptroller./ To the Distributer of Stamps,/ [Limerick]/ 19. 7-52. [B. 70]/ 2,000- Printed by Alex Thom, 87, Abbey-street, Dublin". Last side "To/ The Distributer of Stamps./ [Limerick] Postpaid". Folded from left edge inwards, then from bottom up and top down and sealed at right. Perforation where stuck on spike. Crowned circular red cancellation over address "I/ Paid/ JU 27/ 1853"; circular red on reverse as folded "Limerick/ JU 28/ 1853". Watermark; plume of three feathers over "1849"
Alexander & Co Thom (made by)