Lot 65417 – 1846 Printed advertising entire from Dugort (County

Mayo – Dugort: 1846 Printed advertising entire from Dugort (County Mayo) to London prepaid 1d at the UPP rate, showing the extremely rare DUGORT boxed townstamp in black, this boxed type is unique to Dugort (the boxed Kilcock has now been disproved). The letter is a printed circular issued by the Achill Press advertising its publications, Achill Missionary Herald, and the Achill Mail Car. An important items of Achill Island and Mayo postal history of which only a handful are known, also an engraving of the Protestant Settlement and the mail car.

Provenance: Fred Dixon

Note: The Achill Mission, also known as “the Colony”, was a Protestant missionary settlement on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. It was established in 1834 by Reverend Edward Nangle. Purpose To bring Christianity to the islanders, To transform the island, To lift people out of destitution, and To provide scriptural education. By the early 1840s, the “the Colony” included two-storey slated houses, a printing press, an orphanage, a hospital, a post office, a dispensary, a corn mill and farm buildings, surrounded by fields reclaimed from the wet mountain slopes.