Irish Historical Material · Commercial Ephemera · Dublin
Sir James W. Mackey Ltd. — Dublin Seed Merchants Correspondence, 1957
Original commercial stationery and postal section · 18 July 1957
Catalogue details
Description
Original 1957 Irish commercial correspondence on Sir James W. Mackey Ltd. seedsmen letterhead, 23 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin, retaining its stamped postal section and fertiliser advertisement.
- Date
- 18 July 1957 (postmark)
- Place
- 23 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin
- Country
- Ireland
- Company
- Sir James W. Mackey Ltd.
- Trade
- Seedsmen and agricultural suppliers
- Address
- 23 Upper O’Connell Street, Dublin C.8
- Format
- Original folded commercial accounting sheet with postal return section
- Extent
- One folded document, illustrated on both sides
- Dimensions
- Measurements gladly provided on request
- Reference
- TBH-IRL-EPH-MACKEY-1957
- Condition
- Please consult the photographs for condition. Additional photographs are available on request.
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Historical context & sources
An Irish seed merchant’s working document
An original example of the business stationery of Sir James W. Mackey Ltd., a well-known Dublin seed company. The printed letterhead includes the firm’s address at 23 Upper O’Connell Street, telephone and telegram information, and the statement Established 1777. The lined account form contains contemporary handwritten notations.
Advertising and postal history
The reverse preserves a printed advertisement reading Use Mackey’s Special Fertiliser for all Crops, together with part of a postal return section carrying an Irish two-penny postage stamp and a Dublin cancellation dated 18 July 1957. The address and manuscript notation identify the document as everyday commercial correspondence rather than a formal presentation piece.
Historical context
Sir James William Mackey, associated with the Dublin seed trade, was also a nineteenth-century Lord Mayor of Dublin. The name of the business and its 1777 foundation claim appear on the document; this example itself dates from 1957. It offers a glimpse of agricultural supply, commercial printing and correspondence in mid-century Ireland.
Collecting interest
Irish business ephemera, O’Connell Street history, agricultural commerce, vintage advertising and Irish postal history.
