The range of Irish Maltese Cross cancellations,

comprising 18 covers, all franked with the 1d. red-brown; the following is a list of locations and details of use: Abbeyleix (17.3.1844) Plate 38 AF; Armagh (30.8.1842) Plate 24 OF; Aughnacloy (16.10.1842) Plate 25 BC; Balbriggan (25.4.1843) Plate 21 GH and (30.1.1844) Plate 35 BK-BL pair; Blackrock (28.11.1842) Plate 25 SG; Castle Pollard (20.1.1843) Plate 20 EC; Drogheda (21.9.1841) unplated TC with handstruck 'DROGHEDA/PENNY POST' alongside; Dublin (12.4.1843) Plate 33 AF, (8.6.1843) unplated DF, (24.7.1843) Plate 36 PJ, (17.11.1843) Plate 17 MB; Enniscorthy (9.8.1841) Plate 14 QL; Enniskillen (6.1.1843) Plate 19 CJ; Killybegs (13.10.1842) unplated CK; Larne (19.5.1844) Plate 41 DE; Longford (9.8.1841) Plate 12 SE, (28.12.1842) unplated OG; the Abbeyleix usage is currently the latest known use; condition is generally good to very fine. (S.G. minimum catalogue value £1,385)