Stamps Bearing His Portrait
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Vol. XI No.1 EIRE PHILATELIC ASSOCIATION September-october, 1960 ( International) Whole No. 56 Issued Bi-Monthly John J. Walsh,Editor sec CUISf! 10 omrn oe ,8)8 '9)8 , (j"" ! -'., FATHER THEOBALD MATHEW ell;!e· 2P. an c-ot. mOlcuJ. o.m.ca", Apostle of Temperance Theobald Mathew was born on the 19th of Ootober, 1790 at Thomastown, some distance from Waterford, Ireland. He went to school in Kilkenny and studied for the pr'esthood at famous Maynooth College. He then joined the Capuohin Friars and was sent to Cork. Upon his arrival there, he was approaohed by two prominent citizens, William Martin, a Quaker and a Protestant olergyman, Rev. Nioholas Dunsoombe . who enlisted his support for a temperanoe orusade in that oity. After considerable thought, he aocepted the proposal and in April, 1638 launohed a temperanoe orusade whioh was to eventually sweep all of Ire land. By January, 1839, he had enrolled 200,000 members in his Temperance Society .in Cork and throughout the southern part of Ireland. Meeting such overwhelming success, he journeyed throughout Ireland administering the pledge to oountless thousands. Atter a visit to the United States, his health declined and on the 6th of December, 1856, he died beloved by the whole Irish nation. To oommem orate the 100th anniversary ot the beginning of Father Mathew's Urusade, the Irish Free State in 1936 issued two postage stamps bearing his portrait. At the top of the stamp appear the words uttered by Father Mathew when he signed the first pledge of total abstinenoe: "Seo CUige in Ainm De" - "Here goes in the name of God." At the bottom is the Gaelic insoription "An T-Ath. Mathiu O.M. Cap." - "Father Mathew O.M. Cap." INVERTED COMMA VARIETY - By William Kane,E.P.A. This variety when first discovered was the ..................~ .. .. 2nd stamp of the 2nd row from the top left hand oor- , ner of the sheet. The flaw consists of an inverted aL1?m ~e- oomma found directly under the figure -1- of the date "1938". The variety was oonstant during the time it was on sale when the stamp was first is sued, but when the Post Offices reoeived their fresh supplies upon their first stooks running out, the • Variety no longer existed. At this time, it was the general opinion that a new oliohe had been inserted ,,\, : in the plate. This is a very difficult variety to find. I remember reading -the t the colleotor who first discovered it later went through 30,000 used stamps and only found 20 oopies with the inverted comma. One great feature of this flaw is that it is easily disoernable without the aid of a glass. 471 * '" E.P.A. OFFICERS '" '" STOP PB'!P.AA..mJMERIC.AL CANCl!I.LATION 'IPT>.m PRESIDENT ----------Neil Staok f -~--- ~ P.O. Box 314, Hamilton,Bermuda Sinoe sending you the VICE PRESIDENT ---John J.Walsh .:. article on the numerical 4 Ferris Avenue, Utioa, New York Cancellations (see pages SECRETARY ------------- Daniel J. Luby 474 and 475 of~is issue) 27 Watson Avenue, Ossining. ,New York. #1 8~~ I have come aoross a new TREASURER ------------- G.Ph_Roberts. ip one.a oopy of whioh I ea- 1716 West Alpine Ave ••Stockton.Calif. olose for your inter- EDITOR OJ THE REVXALER John rJ. Walsh. ___ ma t ion. I f'ound f'our oop- 4 Ferris Avenue.Utica.New!rYork • ies of' this item in a lot ASSOCIATION ATTORNEY --- Lorin L. Kay. I examined. P.O. Box 489. Riohland Center.Wiso. PUBLIC RELATIONS OFFICm JOhh J. Clark William Kane. 947 East 32nd Street.Brooki1"n.N.Y. 17 O'CODIIell Gar-' E.P.A. EUROPEAN DIRECTOR - M.J.Giffney dens.Ballsbridge 22 East Boad. Dublin C 10 .£tIreland. No~~ .... +... Sc""I~. Dublin Ireland FOR SUBSCRIPl'IONS AND BACK! COPIFS OF • THE REVEALER. Write to iToh J. Clark, "''''* CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING *"'* at the above address. Price of baok RATFS --- MINIMUM RATE - 10 WORDS 35¢ 00 ies 35 each. II ADDITIONAL WORDS AT •• 04 PER WORD. 11 DISPLAY ADVERl'ISING RATES ON REqum3T SEC:RETARY'S REPORT ~~~T DAY COVERS. Colleotors desiring New Members: ~ irst day oovers of the forthooming Irish issues or of the reoent REFUGEE II 343 L.J .H.¥. Sioking. Issue or other reoent oommemorative Hoge Bam 155;! sets or St. Patrick's Day covers may Dongen. Holli!.nd wri te to IRISH CA CHET COVERS. 947. East (Colleots Holland & 32na Street. Brooklyn 10. New York. Colonies) ., RARE MULLINGAR MALTFSE CROSS ties I am. pleased to report that in ld. red to fine Cover w/c.d.s. response to the many inquiries of' the Mull1ngar OC/15/1843. Superb Ex hibition pieoe. Also other Irish members, we have secure~ reprints of Maltese Crosses; all Catalogued the 12 issue of' the ~' ER (Volume 1. No.2) and they are 'ailable from stamps; Overprints; Slogans; Mute John J. Clark. 947 East 2nd Street. & Town Cancellations. Old and B okl 10 New York. Modern Covers. ,First Days; First Flights; St. Patriok's Days. Beginner One Dollar Packets. fR'f:LAN Albums and WHITE ACE Album Sheets ' for for IRELAND. CLEARY BROTHERS Holii:fa P.O.Box '69 New York 69 N IF SO]!'FICIENT INTEREST IS SHOWN BY THE SOCIETY members we will have produoed for us in Irelandr ten or twelve fine pictorial oovers for speoialjevents during 1961. addressed to you direot and post~ at the Irish Town of greatest interest to the oooasirn. Price '5.00 for the oomplete set. Please advise Uj if interested. CLEARY BROTHERS (Irish Philately) P. O. Box , 69. NEW YORK 69. N. Y. i ,'2 When Thorn undertook to overprint Rates on the ~tamps the entire Rialtas issue, this time in blue-black, additional plates (Meredith of the Irish Ilree ~tate Nos. 4,5,6,7,8,9, and 10) were used. These do not contain the "R" over "S" By Ihe EDITOR. variety. Of the 14 values overprinted in blue-blaclc{ including 2d. Dies I and "R "of" Rto.lc""r"" over" S" of" SeA1lA1'OA1c." II), plates 2 and 3 containine; the "R" One of the most inter over "S" variety were used only for Alox.Tb.m4C•• esting, varieties of the Thorn the 1~d,2d. (both dies), 3d., 6d., and R.A("Ar overprinting of British post- 1/- SeAtAVAO I nA age stamps for use in the r- It will be noticed that with the l"~'r.Ann ish Free State is the so- exception of the 3d, the other values 1922. called "R" over "S" variety. were the same as the first Thorn issue It is not common and it is neglected in bla ck.This supports the theory the. t bY,most general collectors. Thorn was experimenting with blue-black When the oberprinting plates were ink before it took over the entire being prepared, the most accurate set overprinting from Dollard and that No. ting of the type called for the "R" of 2 and No.3 plates were discarded after "Rialtas" to be placed directly above the initial printings of these values the "e" of "Sealadac", the "1" of in blue-black because a number of the "Sealadac" direotly above the "n" of later plates were also used for these "na", and the "1" of "1922" directly values. beneath the "i" of "hEireann". The 3d value in blue-black from The above illustration is ac plates 2 and 3 has an interesting tie curate exoept that there is a slight in with my previous article on the shift to the right in the "1922". "Battle of The Four Courts 1922" (see While there are some Dollard REVEALER Sept-Oct 1(58) in whioh I dis overprints in which there is a shift cussed the 3d blaok "emerg enoy" issue so that the "R" is over the "Se", the by Thom (Scott's No.28a, Gibbons No,38 "R" over' "S" variety is a distinct a). If there was a need for 3d stamps Thom item. at that time as 'olaimed by Ward, the While the method used by Thorn in use of the early plates 2 and 3 to overpri.nting the issue is not olearly overprint the 3d in bl ue-bill ok would known, it is the general mpinion that support that theory. the overprints were set by what is These are interestin~ varieties known as a "monotype" machine (six and warrant further searoh and study. overprints at a time until 240 were set) and then these were plaoed in a "Rn OVER tiS" CHECKLIST printer's form ,and a oomplete sheet of overprints was prepared and " a b 0 Value Plates Used Color stereo made from this type s ..~~ (fib. mc.R. The first stamps overprinted by 15 11 V50 lcl,d 1,2,3,9 Blaole Thorn were in black and were the com l6b 12 V52 2d(i) 1,2,3 II mon values of ltd, 2d Dies I and II, 16 13 V53 2d(II) 1,2,3 " 6d and 1/-. 17 14 V61 6d 1,2,3 " Three plates were used by Thorn 18 15 V65 1/- 1,B,3 " for this first iss'ue (Meredi til calls 28a 38a V57 3d 2,3,4 " them Nos. 1,2 and 3). 25 30 V5l ltd 2,3,4,5,6, Plate 1 does not show any "R" 8,9 Blue-Bl. over "S" shifts on the sheet. 26b 31 V54 2d(I) 2,3,4,5,7 " Plate 2 shows that the "R" has 26 32 V55 2d( II) 2,3,4,5,6, shifted over the "S" on the 4th,5th 7,6,9,10 " and 6th ~tamps in the 17th row.