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M Griffin, Ennistymon, County Clare, 25th November, 1946
Postcard. Obverse: addressed to Mr J R Tinsly & Co, Import Merchants, Limerick, one penny and one half penny stamps, post mark Illegible; reverse: ‘Dear Sir/Please forward balance/of salt immediately/Faithfully yours/Matthew Griffin’.
John Richard Tinsly established his firm in Limerick in 1840 to bring salt from Britain to Ireland. In the days before electricity, salt was used to preserve meat, mostly bacon and salted herrings.
Tinsly’s celebrated 175 years in business in 2015 and today supplies salt mainly for water treatment purposes as it removes calcium, magnesium and limes scale.
John Richard Tinsly was mayor of Limerick in 1865.
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