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The Eclectic Collector · 17 September 2016
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1918 WWI Irish recruiting posters, ‘300 Irishmen Killed’ and ‘An American View’ (2)
A poster citing the sinking of Irish shipping by U-boats and inciting each Irishman to kill a Hessian for himself, a
slogan from the 1798 rebellion. Coded: (2306). Wt. 2822-. 3. 5,000. 7. 1918. Printed for Her Majesty’s Stationary
Office by Alex. Thom & Co. Ltd., Dublin.; and a poster satirising Sinn Fein, ‘From the New York ‘Life’ - Ballad of
Sinn Feiners’. (2) Each
30 x 20in. (76.20 x 50.80cm)
Estimate €200-€300 £170-£260
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 5456
1906 (March 17) Weekly Freeman and National Press, ‘The Rescue’, colour print.
Sub-titled ‘An Episode of the Penal Days’, a colour print, published as a supplement to the newspaper, depicting
an injured priest being assisted into a rowing boat while an accomplice, armed with pistols, holds off a group of
redcoats. Framed.
20 x 25in. (50.80 x 63½cm)
Estimate €100-€150 £90-£130
Large Image & Place Bid Lot 56