HISTORY & LITERATUE 13 MARCH 2016

1865 American Civil War. Model 1840 Sword.

The cast-brass hilt with a steel blade marked

AMES MFG. CO. - CHICOPEE, and US - JCW -

1865, black leather scabbard with brass throat and

drag; together with a Victorian officer’s sword, the

blade siezed in the scabbard. (2) The US sword

35¾in. (90.81cm)

Estimate €400-€600 £312-£468

Large Image & Place Bid Lot 93

1866 (May 8) Fenian Raid. Letter from B.F.

Morse of Raleigh, N.C. to his friend George B.

Dyer, in Eastport, Maine.

An eight page handwritten letter dated Raleigh

May 8, 1866; written in response to the failed

Campobello Island Raid of April 1866 by the Irish

American Fenian Brotherhood members led by

John O’Mahony. The letter written by B.F. Morse

of Raleigh, North Carolina to his friend George

B. Dyer, in Eastport, Maine, goes into great detail

why he thought the Fenians were wrong to attempt

to foment revolution in British controlled Ireland,

with comparisons to the Southern effort at seces-

sion.

10 x 8in. (25.40 x 20.32cm)

Estimate €200-€300 £156-£234

Large Image & Place Bid Lot 94

1866 (March 23) Twenty-Dollar Fenian Bond

Printed by The Continental Bank Note Printing

Company of New York Scarce denomination. $20

Fenian Bond signed and issued by John O’Maho-

ny to Francis Gallagher. These bonds were issued

in America by the Fenian Brotherhood whose

aim was to assist the fight for independence from

Britain and were “redeemable six months after the

acknowledgement of the Independence of the Irish

Nation” Good condition, edge tears and 3” loss to

margin at right edge outside printed area.

7 x 10¾in. (17.78 x 27.31cm)

Estimate €500-€700 £390-£546

Large Image & Place Bid Lot 95

1867 Allen Larkin & O’Brien (“Manchester Mar-

tyrs”) Memorial, Kilrush, Co. Clare, certificate

of subscription .

Coloured lithograph, unissued.

A memorial to the three Fenians was proposed in

the 1890s and completed in 1903. The three had

taken part in an abortive attempt - in which a po-

liceman was killed - to rescue a prisoner in Man-

chester. They were hanged in November 1867.

14 x 18½in. (35.56 x 46.99cm)

Estimate €80-€120 £62.4-£93.6

Large Image & Place Bid Lot 96