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1914 Two British Army Recruitment Posters and a collection of
Edwardian publications.
“‘England - Expects - Every Man - to Do His - Duty’ and - Join the Army
- To-day”, Poster No. 1 and “Your King - and - Country - Need You- Join
the Army - Until the - War is Over”, Poster No. 3, published by the
Parliamentary Recruiting Committee, each 30ins (76cm) high, 20ins
(51cm) wide. Together with The Sphere, January 1901; 1 November 1902;
Special Coronation Edition 1903; Edward VII, 14 May 1910; 1 July 1911; 6
January 1912 with Illustrated London News Record Reign of King Edward
VII, The Sketch Coronation Souvenir, The Royal Souvenir, and misc sheets
and loose covers (11)
€
200-
€
300 (£160-£240 approx)
153
1914 Your King and Country Need You - Enlist Now
Recruitment poster published by the Parlimentary Recruiting Committee,
Poster No. 5. Printer: L. S. & Co. 30 x 20in. (76.20 x 50.80cm)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
154
1914 Men of The Empire To Arms! - God Save the King!
Recruitment poster published by the Parlimentary Recruiting Committee,
Poster No. 4. Printer: L. S. & Co.; together with “Your King and Country
Need You. Enlist Now.” Poster No. 5. (2) 30 x 20in. (76.20 x 50.80cm)
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
155
1914 Rally Round the Flag! Every Fit Man Wanted
Recruitment poster published by the Parlimentary Recruiting Committee,
Poster No. 1. Printer: Hanbury Tomsett & Co., London; together with
“England Expects Every Man to Do His Duty and Join the Army To-day”,
Printer: Hanbury Tomsett & Co., London. (2) 30 x 20in. (76.20 x 50.80cm)
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
156
1914-18 Women munitions workers on War Service, Dublin,
photograph and letters.
Photograph of a group of women with sign reading “ON WAR SERVICE”,
and letters on National Munitions (No. 10 Area), Ireland, National Shell
Factory, Parkgate Street, Dublin, certifying that Miss Mary Noonan served
from November 1916, and a letter of dismissal dated 9 December 1918,
less than a month after Armistice Day. Extremely rare record of Irish
women working on British War Service.
Provenance: Mary “May” Noonan, who is pictured in the photograph;
thence by descent, and gifted to the present owner.
National Shell Factories were established in Cork, Dublin, Galway and Waterford.
The workforce in the new shell factories was overwhelmingly female. Only five per
cent of this industrial workforce could be male under government munitions
regulations. The Shell Factories gave many young Irish women their first experience
as trade unionists, with the women represented by the NFWW, the National
Federation of Women Workers, which succeeded in bringing about improved
conditions and rates of pay, but not without struggle. In September 1918 for
example, almost 600 women were temporarily locked out of employment.
€
150-
€
200 (£120-£160 approx)
157
1914 - 1918 Three WWI Medals to Irish regiments
A Great War Medal to Pte. J. Cremin, Royal Munster Fusiliers; A Great
War Medal to Pte. D. Condon, Royal Munster Fusiliers; and a Victory
Medal to Pte. W. Davies, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
158
1914-18 Medal & Emergency Service Medal
A Great War medal to Pte. P. Neill, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, lacking
suspension ring; together with a 1939 - 1946 Emergency Service Air Raid
Precautions medal with clasp, believed to be same recipient. (2)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
159
A British “5 May” Iron Lusitania medal.
A British propaganda copy of a German medal issued to mark the sinking
of the Lusitania off The Old Head of Kinsale, Co. Cork, on 7 May 1915
(the medal is incorrectly dated 5 May”). The obverse shows the ship
sinking with weapons piled up on its decks. “KEINE BANN WARE” (“NO
CONTRABAND”), and the reverse shows a skeleton selling tickets for
Cunard to a queue of passengers inscribed “GESCHAFT UBER ALLES”
“BUSINESS ABOVE ALL”). These copies were sold for one shilling each in
Selfridges to raise funds for charities
€
70-
€
100 (£60-£80 approx)
160
1917-1918 Constantinople, cigarette case
A white-metal cigarette case, the lid with blue enamel stringing and
engraved to the centre with an armorial device and the motto: “Nil
Desperandum” and to the corner: “Constantinople 1917-1918”, the
interior gilt.
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
161
1918-19. Sir William Orpen poem “Mud” original manuscript sent to
his wife in England
Headlined “Zilebeke Church, October 1918” on a single foolscap sheet,
Orpen’s famous poem on the battlefield in World War I, in which he
served as a war artist with the rank of major, in his own hand and signed
“Billon” . In original envelope with Field Post Office and Military censor
marks, dated 19 May 1919, addressed to Lady Orpen at Chesham, and
signed “William Orpen, Major”. A unique manuscript by one of Ireland’s
most famous artists and arguably Britain’s greatest World War I artist,
who uniquely conveyed some of the horror of trench warfare.
The proceeds of the sale of this manuscript, kindly donated by Orpen’s grandson,
Richard Olivier, will go to funding for a statue of William Orpen to be erected at his
brthplace, Stillorgan, County Dublin.
€
2,000-
€
3,000 (£1,600-£2,400 approx)
162
1909-1920 collection of booklets and ephemera.
Includes 1909 The Irish Party And The Budget pp24 paper wrapper,
stained, circa 1920 The First Of The Small Nations pp32 paper wrapper,
stained, 1920 Who Burnt Cork City? pp68, illustrated paper wrapper,
slight stains, In Memoriam cards (2) for Reginald Dunn and Joseph
O’Sullivan, assassins of Sir Henry Wilson, picture postcard
commemorating Thomas Ashe (2), handbill with poem by Ashe, and
reserved place tickets (3) for a requiem mass at St. George’s Cathedral for
Terence MacSwiney. (11)
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
163
1909 Defensive Warfare booklet.
A Handbook for Irish Nationalists; West Belfast Branch, Sinn Féin, 1909
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
164
1913 Irish Rally and 1915 O’Donovan Rossa Funeral tickets.
Wolfe Tone and United Irishmen Memorial Committee Aeridheacht and
Irish Rally at Dolphin’s Barn 1 June 1913 including Fianna review and
“Irish-Ireland Talent”, and O’Donovan Rossa Funeral Committee Pass to
Grave Side
€
100-
€
150 (£80-£120 approx)
165
1913 Royal Proclamation prohibiting the importation of arms into
Ireland
Printed by Eyre and Spottiswode Ltd, London. 23 x 17½in. (58.42 x
44.45cm)
€
300-
€
500 (£240-£400 approx)