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L13 (Broad crown, rouletted) (2), L12a (Blue and black, perf. 11) on piece w/ Great Britain 128 (2), 143 [MID (det)] [LAR (det)] |
Notes: This piece from a registered letter, sent from Dublin to an unknown destination, includes three 1908 Sinn Féin labels (two "Broad Crown" Hibernias, L13, and one Cross, L12a) along with the three 1902-11 Edward VII definitives paying the 2 1/2d postage. It may be seen that the sender of the letter did not adhere to the recommendation of Arthur Griffith in Sinn Féin (4 January 1908) that the labels "be placed on the envelope in the opposite corner to that of the revenue stamp." Rather, labels and stamps are adjacent and alternated - perhaps to ensure the labels' visibility, or perhaps to tweak the Post Office by representing the latter as stamps. In any case, the Dublin postal worker who handled the letter in the Upper Baggot Street branch cancelled each of the British stamps "on the nose," while avoiding the Sinn Féin labels insofar as possible. The usage (3 February 1908) dates from about a month after the labels were introduced to the public.
Provenance: Dr. Charles Wolf.
Bibliography: EPA 1961, "Political Labels of Ireland," 5-7; "Irish Stamps: A Retrospect," 621-2; Feldman 1968, 14-15; Mackay 1968, 56-58; H. G. L. Fletcher 1974, 889-92; W. Fletcher 1994, 34-39.
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