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Autograph collection
A signature letter from Alice Meynell suffragette poet thanking her
correspondent for sending “quotation of my sonnet in the Chicago
Tribune”, a letter from John FitzGibbon, Earl of Clare, mentioning Pitt; a
poem on parchment by John Drinkwater accompanied by a signed letter to
Mr Beals, together with autographs of Harry Lauder, Cardinal Wiseman,
Rabindranath Tagore.
€
120-
€
180 (£100-£140 approx)
137
County of Louth, Election Notice poster.
A Parliamentary Election notice, by the Returning Officer of The County of
Louth, South Division, for the 1906 general election. 22 x 17½in. (55.88 x
44.45cm)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
138
Celtic Revival collection of a brooch and two medals
A gilt metal Conradh na Gaedhlige medal, awarded to Switzers for window
display, cased; an early 20th century reproduction of the Tara brooch, in
gilt metal and cabouchon semi-precious stones, by Waterhouse, Dublin,
cased; and a Tailteann games bronze medal, for “clay bird”, cased. (3)
€
250-
€
300 (£200-£240 approx)
139
Fáinne Óir
An early 20th century 9ct gold Fáinne lapel pin; together with a gilt metal
and enamel Feis Muirtheimhne medal. (2)
€
50-
€
60 (£40-£50 approx)
140
1907 Dublin, The Irish International Exhibition, souvenir handkerchief.
A handkerchief printed with views of the exhibition and its environs.
19 x 18½in. (48.26 x 46.99cm)
€
80-
€
100 (£60-£80 approx)
141
1909 Belfast linen industry, apprentice’s indenture
An apprenticeship indenture between Thomas Beattie, and James and
Samuel Johnson, Flax Street, Belfast, dated 27th September 1909, framed.
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
142
1909 Banba Magazine. Vol. 1, No. 1., December 1901.
together with April, 1903 and July, 1921. (3)
€
80-
€
120 (£60-£100 approx)
143
Clongowes Wood College. The Clongownian 1910-1936 range of issues.
Clongowes Wood College. The Clongownian 1910, 1911, 1915, 1918, 1924,
1926, 1927, 1928, 1930 & 1936. 10 issues. Profusely illustrated and
includes many pupils who later achieved high status in Ireland and
elsewhere. Rare. (10)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
144
Interesting collection of books, booklets and pamphlets relating to
Royal Irish Constabulary, Dáil Éireann etc.
Includes Saorstát Éireann First Act of Parliament 1922, 1942 Constitution,
both signed Justin F. O’Brien, Police Duties And Drill by A. Bain DI, RIC, The
Royal Irish Constabulary Code 1911, some interesting later including 1966
Misneach Hunger Strike, 1965 Just Society and others (13).
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
144A
1916 A collection of postcards of the aftermath of the Rising
together with a handwritten secretarial note to a newspaper refusing a
Christmas greeting to the soldiers of the British Army: “Mrs Lloyd George -
is very sorry - she has promised - a message to - another paper - a few
days ago.” (11)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
145
1910 Anti Home Rule Election Poster
An anti Home-Rule and anti Redmond election poster for the 1910 General
election, citing the harm caused to a Boycotted labourer’s family. 20 x
25in. (50.80 x 63½cm)
€
200-
€
300 (£160-£240 approx)
146
1912. “Wreck of The Titanic” memoriam print .
Palatine Printing Company Wigan. With coloured flower border.
Commemorating casualties from Liverpool and Birkenhead. Framed. 14 x
13in. (35.56 x 33.02cm)
Printed by Palatine Printing Co., Wigan, with local list of crew - whose place of birth
is given as Liverpool or Birkenhead.
€
200-
€
300 (£160-£240 approx)
147
Titanic in Belfast
A set of seven celluloid photographic transparencies of The Titanic at
Harland & Wolfe shipyards, together with prints of each photograph. Also
an Ulster Bank, George Best commemorative £5-note and a 1971 First Day
Cover. (16)
€
120-
€
180 (£100-£140 approx)
148
James MacDonald oil painting: Britannic at Sail
HMHS Britannic was the third and largest Olympic-class ocean liner of the
White Star Line. She was the sister ship of RMS Olympic and RMS Titanic,
and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She
was launched just before the start of the First World War and was laid up
at her builders in Belfast for many months before being put to use as a
hospital ship in 1915. She was shaken by an explosion, caused by an
underwater mine, in the Kea Channel off the Greek island of Kea on the
morning of 21 November 1916, and sank with the loss of 30 lives.
36 x 48in. (91.44 x 121.92cm)
€
300-
€
500 (£240-£400 approx
149
1912 - 1914 Ulster Covenant Day and the Ulster Volunteers postcards
Five postcards depicting Edward Carson signing the Ulster Covenant and
reviewing Ulster Volunteers; together with an Official Unionist Party
election leaflet for Jim Molyneaux.
€
80-
€
120 (£60-£100 approx)
150
1913 (16 January) Young Citizen Volunteers, First Meeting Belfast Corps
A typewritten draft address of F. C. Forth, Principal of the Municilpal
Technical Institute, for delivery to the first general meeting of the Belfast
Corps of the Young Citizen Volunteers of Ireland (YCV), 16 January 1913.
12pp; Together with a letter on YCV headed paper requesting the use of
the hall of the Technical Institute.
The YCV had its origins in the Belfast Citizens Association and had its first meeting
just prior to the signing of the Solemn League and Covenant (Ulster), opposing Home
Rule, in Belfast City Hall on September 10, 1912. Their commanding officer was
Colonel R Spencer Chichester, a strongly right-wing Unionist who favoured
purchasing guns for the YCV. Although officially called the YCV of Ireland it had no
members beyond Belfast. The YCV was subsumed into the Ulster Volunteer Force
during WWI.
€
800-
€
1,000 (£640-£800 approx)
151
Circa 1920. Sir Edward Carson etching by John Day, signed by Carson.
Signed in ink “Edward Carson”. 10 x 8in. (25.40 x 20.32cm)
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)