Receipt
Collection object
1986.0143.38
H. 22.6 W. 18.9
Receipt, printed/ ms; black on white. Single sheet folded in half and printed on first and last side only. First, "Stamp Office, Dublin,/ No. [1604 28] day of [Dec] 183[8]/ Received from [Peter O'Brien]/ Distributer of Stamps for [Limerick] the sum of/ One hundred and twenty three pounds]/ on Account of Stamp Duties, being the Amount of his/ Remittance for the Week end ("for the Week end" crossed out) of the[is day]/ £[123:0:0/ Robert Tyrrell] Receiver-General./ [H. Cooper] Comptroller./ To the Distributer of Stamps,/ [Limerick & Clare]". 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. Rectangular red cancellation over address "Paid/ DE 28E/ 1838"; circular black on reverse as folded "Limerick/ DE 29/ 1838". Watermark; "Johnston & Molineux/ 1834"
Johnston & Molineux (papermaker)