WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR Saturday 6 May 2017 at 10am

12 / 298

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 MAY 2017 AT 10AM
18th/19th Century
7
1820, Signing of the American Declaration of
Independence July 4th 1776.
A large format, hand-coloured engraving, The
[Signing of the] Declaration of Independence, after
John Trumbull (1756-1843), engraved by Asher
Brown Durand (1796-1886).
24 by 32.50in. (61 by 82.6cm)
Estimate €700-€1000 (approx £595-£850)
8
18th century to 1970s Dublin scrapbook
Ex Libris FE Dixon with annotated contents, 4to. A
miscellany of clippings on various subjects relating
to the city and environs. Unique.
Fred Dixon, born in 1913, grew up in Peterborough,
England. A mathematics graduate from Cambridge,
he migrated to Ireland and became one of the
country’s first professional meteorologists. By
the mid-sixties he was appointed head of the
analysis and forecast office and ten years later
took charge of the meteorological division, where
he was responsible for weather records. Dixon’s
interests extended far beyond his work; he was
a distinguished philatelist, postal historian and
numismatist, President of the Irish Philatelic Society,
a founding member of the Post Card Society, an
inveterate writer of letters to The Irish Times, with
many articles published worldwide on his collecting
interests. Fred Dixon died in Dublin in September
1988.
Estimate €100-€150 (approx £85-£127)
9
1779 The Volunteers of the City and County of
Dublin.
A coloured engraving, after Francis Wheatley, The
Volunteers of the City and County of Dublin, as
they met on College Green, 4th November 1779.
Attractively framed.
15 by 23in. (38.1 by 58.4cm)
Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£255)