Irish Potato Famine, Quaker Relief, 1847-48. Exceptional mounted exhibit tracing the postal history of the Quaker relief efforts during the Irish Potato Famine, primarily through the Central Relief Committee (CRC), chronological pages present an overview of the Quaker efforts, with covers and letters of historical importance as well as a number of covers of philatelic significance (highlighted with red borders in the linked PDF), the history is extensive with lots of good letter content and covers traveling in both transatlantic directions, covers to Ireland and England are stampless, some to the U.S. are franked with G.B. stamps, the detailed page write-ups place each cover in the context of the relief efforts, one cover is from the landlord of the Kearney family (the direct ancestors of President Barack Obama), the items of philatelic significance include two discriminatory rate covers carried on the June 1, 1847 trip of the Washington, which was the first Collins Line U.S. packet to England -- that trip inaugurated the famous Retaliatory rate period between the United States and Great Britain -- also a Retaliatory Rate incoming cover to New York and others with good postal markings including a "2/-" shilling due handstamp, condition is fresh essentially throughout

VERY FINE AND FASCINATING EXHIBIT TRACING THE QUAKER RELIEF EFFORTS FOR THE IRISH PEOPLE DURING THE GREAT POTATO FAMINE.

We could expound further on this exhibit but viewing the linked PDF is the best way to fully appreciate it. Ex Duffney.

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