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A Pictorial Souvenir and History of the Second
Battalion The Royal Ulster Rifles, Poona, India,
1927.
Historical Art Publishing Company.1928. Illustrated with
31 tipped-in photographs. Oblong 4to, 280x390mm.
Original publisher’s blue cloth A 25 page history of the
Battalion followed by 31 mounted photographs of the
Battalion in 1927 in Poona, India. Photographs include
officers, NCO’s, band and bugles, machine gun platoon,
signallers, each of the 16 platoons and sports teams. A
very rare book.
9 x 11_in. (22.86 x 29.21cm)
Estimate €250-€350 £180-£260
170
1914-1918WWI French fundraising poster
Les blessés de la tuberculose: Comité Central d’Assis-
tance aux Militaires Tuberculeux.” above a central image
of a nurse bringing a bowl to a sick soldier lying on a
day-bed. Colour lithograph, linen backed.”
41 x 57in. (104.14 x 144.78cm)
Estimate €100-€150 £70-£110
171
Irish National Foresters sash
A green poplin sash, the borders embroidered with
gold shamrock and emblazoned with a harp and INF”.
Together with a 9ct gold harp brooch and a silver harp
brooch. (3)”
40 x 4_in. (101.60 x 11.43cm)
Estimate €200-€250 £150-£180
172
1900 - 1908 Correspondence between Frank
Skeffington and Hannah Sheehy
Thirteen letters between the couple prior to their mar-
riage, commencing in 1900 with Hannah Sheehy living
in Paris and Skeffington in Kilkenny; and two July 1908
letters from Frank to Hannah at 11, Grosvenor Place,
Rathmines. (15)
Estimate €150-€200 £110-£150