Lot 576 Ireland

1922 IRA labels for 1d yellow-brown, 2d green and 6d blue three stamps issued by the Irish Republican Army in Cork inscribed 1922 An Port, to be used as an alternative postal system to the existing post office, these are perhaps the most philatelically legitimate of all Irish forerunners in that they were clearly to serve a postal function. Most of the sheets were destroyed in a fire hence only a few exist (estimated 250-1000 copies are believed to have survived the fire). Scarce trio.