1821 disinfected mail from Corfu, Ionian Islands to Dublin, Ireland struck with circular ''ISOLE IONIE'' handstamp in bluish ink with ''5d.'' manuscript inserted. Disinfected with vertical slits at Otranto with straight line ''OTRANTO'' in red, manuscript ''15'' on front applied at Naples in grana. The letter then passed through Venice, Augsburg, to London (May 24) and on to Dublin where charged ''6/-'' (shillings) in manuscript.

Irish Diaspora Letters: Corfu, British Ionian Islands to Dublin, Ireland (1821)

Irish Diaspora Mail to Ireland: Corfu, British Ionian Islands to Dublin: 1821 Notes: The United States of the Ionian Islands was a Greek state and amical protectorate of Great Britain between 1815 and 1864. It was the successor state of the Septinsular Republic. It covered the territory of the Ionian Islands, in modern Greece, and…