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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Aidan Work, post: 235534, member: 1824&quot;]Dopeuser,there is no catalogue of Irish postal orders.The &#039;Harp&#039; design ones like that 9/- paid one there are notoriously difficult to classify by the name of the issuing post office,as the names on the post offices&#039; datestamps are entirely in Erse.</p><p><br /></p><p>The word &#039;Scilling&#039; is the Erse word for &#039;Shilling&#039;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have got a few Irish postal orders,but only 1 Decimal &#039;Harp&#039; one in my collection.I am getting an Irish 10 Quid one issued on the 31st. of October 2001 at a sub post office in the Carrick-on-Shannon area,which is coming to me all the way from England.</p><p><br /></p><p>Irish postal orders are becoming extremely difficult to find.They are collected by British Commonwealth postal order collectors,like myself.</p><p><br /></p><p>Postal orders are a legitimate branch of notaphily.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s an article; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Orders_of_Ireland" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Orders_of_Ireland" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Orders_of_Ireland</a> .</p><p><br /></p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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