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359

Ulster Unionist Council. Election Poster

Which is Your Road? Vote Unionist!”with image Lord

Brookeborough, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland

(1943-63) standing beside a signpost to modern, indus-

trial “United Kingdom” and “Eire Republic”with Eamonn

de Valera seated on a stone wall with a cottage behind

him. Printed by John Cleland & Son.”

30 x 20in. (76.20 x 50.80cm)

Estimate €150-€200 £110-£150

Large Image & Place Bid 359

360

21 May 1949 Jack B Yeats autograph letter

On 18 Fitzwilliam Square, Dublin notepaper, in pencil

to Mr O’Reilly regarding Yeats’modest subscription

towards the Bernard Shaw plaque”, signed Jack B Yeats.

Attractively framed with two images of Yeats’ paintings.”

11 x 29_in. (27.94 x 74.93cm)

Estimate €300-€400 £220-£290

Large Image & Place Bid 360

361

1949 (25 July). Letter signed by Congressman John Kennedy - later President of the USA 1960-1963.

Typescript on Congress of the United States headed paper, signed in ink John Kennedy”. Addressed to Turner’s, a

liquor store in Cambridge Massachusetts, concerning their petition for a reduction in federal excise taxes on alcoholic

beverages. Interesting content bearing in mind his father’s interests in the liquor business. A scarce and attractive

letter from the early political career of “JFK”. Believed to have been brought to Ireland by a former employee of the

addressee.”

Estimate €800-€1,200 £590-£880

Large Image & Place Bid 361