56
WHYTES
SINCE 1783
,
379
Collection of ephemera including postcards, photographs of film stars,
golfing memorabilia, map, booklets etc.
Includes picture postcards (17) with Whelan’s Hotel advertisement (2),
Guinness Brewery, street scenes etc., press photographs (3) including
Ronald Colman, horse racing 1939, golfing items including Patsy Berg
signed card, 1949 and 1950 Irish Ladies Close Championship complete
results sheets, 1960 Canada Cup, Portmarnock timesheet and course map,
All Hallows College Drumcondra circa 1910 illustrated booklet, 1914 Field
Service Pocket Book, 1939 Irish Times War Map, and Irish ration books for
1948 and 1951 etc. (41)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£130 approx)
380
1960: John F. Kennedy Presidential Campaign Poster
Original J.F.K. election campaign poster titled “Kennedy for President.
Leadership for the 60s”. Print markings lower right side of poster #605 J.
Attractively framed.
€
400-
€
500 (£330-£420 approx)
381
1961: John F. Kennedy Official Inaugural Program
Special limited edition 1961 Official Inaugural Program for the
inauguration of JFK and Lyndon B. Johnson. A limited deluxe edition of
which this is 531. Signed by E.H. Foley, general chairman of the 1961
inaugural committee.
€
250-
€
350 (£210-£290 approx)
382
1963: John F. Kennedy mass card and newspapers collection
Contemporary mass card issued and distributed after the assassination of
John F. Kennedy. Also with five original newspapers relating to the deaths
of both Kennedy brothers. Comprising The Daily News Friday evening Nov.
23 1963, The Washington Post Friday Nov. 23 1963, Times Herald Monday
Nov. 25 1963, Times Herald Thursday June 6 1968. The Daily News Friday
evening June 7 1968. (6 items)
€
200-
€
300 (£170-£250 approx)
383
1962: James Bond “Dr No” Irish censored film poster
Original issue colour quad film poster printed in England by Stafford &
Co Ltd., Netherfield, Nottingham and London. With amendments
including a dress superimposed on Ursula Andress, who is shown in a
bikini in the original. Rare. 30 x 40in. (76 x 102cm)
Provenance:
Whyte’s 11 December 1999, lot 468; Private collection
€
600-
€
800 (£500-£670 approx)
384
20th Century: Space travel signed ephemera including Valentina
Tershkova signed photograph
Photograph attractively framed as a display piece signed by Valentina
Tershkova, the first woman in space. Also with framed commemorative
first day cover signed by the crew of the Gemini VI and VII missions and
Two Sides of the Moon signed by David Scott. (3 items)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£130 approx)
385
No Lot
386
1965. Sarah Gertrude Millin: Handwritten and signed letter
A 4pp manuscript signed letter dated 8 December 1965 on headed paper
by Sarah Gertrude Millin. Content relating to the death of her brother,
her hopes of writing a book dedicated to him called ‘Goodbye Dear
England’ and stating that “...I have seen as much as the world as I need to
and I am not prepared to visit England again while she goes on
tormenting South Africa and still more Rhodesia over race policies.
Chinese are undermining every part of Africa. Africa for the Africans
means not only the elimination of all whites, it means also Africa for the
Chinese...” Also with a copy of Millin’s autobiography ‘The Measure of my
Days”. Sarah Gertrude Millin (1889-1968), was a South African-born
writer. In her lifetime, she was one of the most popular English-language
novelists in South Africa. She also wrote biographies of Cecil Rhodes and
General Jan Smuts.
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£130 approx)
387
1970s: Large collection of photographic slides including Waterford,
Wicklow, Kilkenny etc.
A collection of over 200 topographical photographic slides of historical
interest taken during the 1970s and covering the counties Waterford,
Wicklow, Kilkenny, Carlow, Sligo, Mayo etc. Also with slides showing the
1973 Red Cross visit to Áras an Uachtaráin.
€
150-
€
250 (£130-£210 approx)
388
Monory, Jacques - Butor, Michel: U.S.A. 1976 Bicentenary of American
Independence
Illustrated by Jacques Monory. Paris: Editions Philippe Lebaud - Le Club
Du Livre, 1975. Limited/Numbered. Signed by authors. Fine first limited
edition, one of 225 copies. No. 22/225. (although publisher originally
called for 300 copies, and the colophon indicates this, only 225 were
published). Large light blue plexiglass box (16 x 12in. approx.), with 3
drawers containing 104pp text by Butor in French, 20 signed silkscreens
by Monory, many objects of American ephemera, many encased in plastic,
also loose booklets and other evocative American memorabilia. Specially
published to celebrate the bicentenary of American Independence as seen
in the eyes of a Frenchman. It is in the tradition of De Tocquevillle,
Chateaubriand, or Duchamp.
€
1,000-
€
1,500 (£830-£1,250 approx)
389
1980s: Fianna Fáil ephemera with signatures including Árd-Fheis pass,
dinner menu and ‘The Boss’
‘The Boss Charles J. Haughey in Government’ by Joe Joyce & Peter
Murtagh signed by a number of Fianna Fáil politicians of the 24th Dáil
including Charles Haughey, Brian Lenihan, Pádraig Flynn, Niall Andrews,
Gene Fitzgerald, Jim Tunney, John P. Wilson, Michael Woods and Ray
MacSharry. Also with Fianna Fáil Árd-Fheis 1986 observer pass and Fianna
Fáil Dublin North West Finance Committee Dinner Dance Menu for 17
March 1984 signatures include Charles Haughey, Niall Andrews, Michael
Barrett and Jim Tunney. Proceeds from this item will be donated to St.
Francis Hospice, Raheny.
€
80-
€
120 (£70-£100 approx)
390
Gerald Scarfe: ‘Phoney hostesses of two extravagant parties accuse
one another of Fraud’
Large pen and ink with pencil caricature of John Major, Prime Minister,
and Neil Kinnock, Leader of the Opposition. Signed lower left; with title
upper right; with artist’s instructions in the left margin.
32 x 22½in. (81 x 56cm)
€
800-
€
1,000 (£670-£830 approx)
391
Gerald Scarfe: “Don’t forget I was the architect of all this not John
Major”
Large pen and ink with pencil caricature of Margaret Thatcher, signed
upper right; titled centre, framed. 32 x 22½in. (81 x 56cm)
€
800-
€
1,000 (£670-£830 approx)
392
1989: Princess Diana signed photograph
Photograph of Princess Diana, President of Barnardo’s, signed and dated
underneath by The Princess of Wales. Acquired from the sale of works
from Barnardo’s London. 12 x 9½in. (30 x 23cm)
€
400-
€
500 (£330-£420 approx)
