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WHYTES

SINCE 1783

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409

1950-1953 Korean War collection of ephemera

Korean war: small collection of North Korean Propaganda leaflets dropped

on Allied Troops, incl. Safe Conduct Press, Christmas Card, N. Korean field

post card, US Propaganda Leaflets, etc.,scarce group (9 items).

100-

150 (£80-£120 approx)

410

1940s The Partition Debate

A collection of 20 booklets broadly concerned with the partition of Ireland,

with pro- and anti-partition arguments represented. An interesting

collection.

100-

150 (£80-£120 approx)

411

1940s. Maud Gonne-MacBride correspondence with an IRA veteran

A collection of twelve handwritten letters by Maud-Gonne MacBride to

Vincent Crompton, together with two letters on Clann na Poblachta

letterhead, a reference etc.

Vincent Crompton, aged 36, and Jean Dobson, aged 19, occupied a Bonnie and Clyde

status in the Liverpool IRA in the late 1930s. They led a cell of young activists and

were arrested following a series of bombings in August 1939. Crompton was

imprisoned and returned to Ireland on his release. The correspondence relates to his

attempt to build a new life in Dublin in the late 1940s.

800-

1,200 (£640-£960 approx)

412

1941 Stephen Hayes, Chief-of-Staff, IRA, Special Communiqué

A four-page IRA communiqué outlining charges brought against Stephen

Hayes, Enniscorthy for his part in his confessed “conspiracy with the Free

State Government, through their Agents, ...to wreck the Irish Republican

Army”; also “Release the Political Prisoners”, an official statement of the

Political Prisoners’ Committee, IRA, 1924.

80-

120 (£60-£100 approx)

413

No lot

414

1944 Autographed Menu Card, ‘The Hist.’

A menu for The College Historical Society Dublin, Opening Meeting Supper,

1 November, 1944, signed to the front by an interesting cross-section of

Dublin society, including Éamon de Valera, Jack Butler Yeats, Michael Butler

Yeats, T. C. Kingsmill-Moore, James G. Douglas, Owen Sheehy Skeffington et

al. 7 x 4½in. (17.78 x 11.43cm)

300-

500 (£240-£400 approx)

415

1950s Irish Political autographs

A collection of 30 autographs, including four Presidents of Ireland:

Seán

T. O’Kelly, Éamon de Valera, Erskine Childers and Patrick Hillery; four

Taoisigh: de Valera, Seán Lemass, Jack Lynch and John A. Costello; the

cabinet of the 16th Dáil, 1957-1961; and notable political and diplomatic

figures.

600-

800 (£480-£640 approx)

416

McGarrity, J., Resistance, Signed by leading republicans

The Story of the Struggle in British-Occupied Ireland, Irish Freedom Press,

1957. Signed to the fly-leaf by Martin McGuinness, Gerry Adams, Gerry

Kelly, Bobby Story, Seamus Walsh etc.

150-

250 (£120-£200 approx)

417

1966 - 1969 Irish language restoration

Misneach Gaelic Weekly, April, 1966; February, 1967, a hand written letter

on Muintir Wolfe Tone notepaper; and a letter from Sinn Féin Árd-Oifig to

all Cumainn. (3)

80-

120 (£60-£100 approx)

418

1963: John F. Kennedy ephemera collection including memorial card

signed by Rose Kennedy

A large collection of mixed items comprising mainly of newspaper and

magazine clippings relating to the life and death of JFK. Including a John F.

Kennedy memorial card signed by his mother, Rose Kennedy

80-

150 (£60-£120 approx)

419

1964: John F. Kennedy chalk-ware bust by Edward Schillaci

Austin Productions chalk-ware bust of President John F. Kennedy sculpted

in 1964, the year following his assassination. Signed on the reverse by the

artist Edward Schillaci and marked “Austin Prod.1964” 12in. (30.48cm)

200-

300 (£160-£240 approx)

420

1960: John F. Kennedy letter.

A signed letter on Senator John F. Kennedy’s Presidential campaign

letterhead to Miss Veronica Tyirich, Cincinnati, thanking her for her

support. Framed with a printed campaign envelope. 11 x 8½in. (27.94 x

21.59cm)

150-

200 (£120-£160 approx)

421

c.1960 Aer Lingus Dublin Horse Show poster

Aer Lingus advertisement poster showing a scene from the Dublin Horse

Show. Photograph by T. Hayde. Colour lithograph by The Ormond Printing

Co. 39 x 24in. (99.06 x 60.96cm)

100-

150 (£80-£120 approx)

422

Papas, Bill. Original Pen & Ink caricature of an American Cop on the

Beat Swinging His Baton

Papas, Bill. Original Pen & Ink caricature of an American Cop on the Beat

Swinging His Baton. 1966. 11.25 x 9.75 Inches. Good Probably a New York

city cop. Inscribed, signed and dated. William “Bill” Papas (15 July 1927 -19

June 2000) was a political cartoonist and caricaturist, book author and

illustrator, and watercolourist. In the 1960s and 1970s he worked for The

Guardian, The Sunday Times and Punch. His work has won international

acclaim and is included in many private and corporate collections.

200-

250 (£160-£200 approx)

423

1968-1969 Archive of documents relating to Concorde

Research and preparatory material assembled by Granada Television in

1969-70, relating to the development of Concorde, including transcripts of

interviews with aviation industry figures, politicians and press officers. (280

plus pages)

100-

150 (£80-£120 approx)

424

1975 Sir Edward Heath, photographs and a signed letter on House of

Commons notepaper.

A collection of photographs relating to wine making in Bordeaux, including

a visit in 1975 by Edward Heath to Chateau Loudenne. Heath is shown

planting a tree and being interviewed by the press. The accompanying

letter, signed by Heath, refers to the tree planting and the 1975 vintage.

Some duplicates. (105)

100-

150 (£80-£120 approx)

425

1975. Patty Hearst signed letter, photograph, also FBI posters and other

US historical ephemera

Includes Patty Hearst Her Own Story autographed, and some interesting

19th and 20th century collectable ephemera and documents. (20)

100-

150 (£80-£120 approx)

426

“If they got pregnant would we have this bill?” poster

1978, Health (Family Planning) Bill Featuring a cartoon and photo montage

of Jack Lynch, Garret FitzGerald, Charles Haughey, Bishop Dermot Ryan, all

heavily pregnant. 24 x 17in. (60.96 x 43.18cm)

150-

200 (£120-£160 approx)