- £750.00
I.R.A. ATTACK ON THE ROTUNDA POST OFFICE. On the morning of 5 November 1922 armed I.R.A. men entered the Rotunda with tins of petrol with which they saturated the floors, and, when their preparations were complete, set the place on fire. Within an hour, despite the efforts of the fire brigade to extinguish the flames, the Rotunda was a mass of smoldering ashes and twisted ironwork. The mail was mainly destroyed, but a small number survived, all badly burnt. That mail received a two line violet cachet ‘SALVED FROM / FIRE G P O DUBLIN.’ This cover, posted from BAILIEBOROUGH with the original contents has the cachet on both the front and back. It was forwarded in an AMBULANCE COVER to Belfast. A very rare item from this incident forwarded in an ambulance cover.
