1835 (20.2) Folded lettersheet sent locally within Dublin "To his Excellency The Lord Lieutenant of Ireland", showing a superb strike of the type 1 crowned oval TO BE DELIVER'D FREE in black, plus linear LOWER COOMBE receiving house in red and the handstamped "1" struck in error hence deleted by a Dublin ZIG ZAG erasure hs both in black, a wonderful showpiece.
Note: Crowned handstamps TO BE DELIVER'D FREE were in used from 1816 to1831. Edward James Baynes, as comptroller of the Dublin Penny Post used two types of the crown handstamp to exempt official mail from local postal charges to which ordinary franked letters were liable.
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