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

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 6 MAY 2017 AT 10AM

19th Century

Late 19th and early 20th century scrap books

A Victorian scrapbook, 4to, full navy leather gilt,

containing a history of the English monarchy in

rhyme, with a portrait of each monarch fromWilliam

the Conqueror to Victoria tipped in; and an early

20th century scrapbook, folio, full red leather, with

clippings relating to the monarchy and military

leaders pasted in.

Estimate €120-€180 (approx £102-£153)

1879-1884 Champion Irish Red Setter Garryowen, his show collar.

A white metal collar engraved ‘Garryowen - The Champion - Irish Red Setter - Owner, JJ Giltrup’

suspended with 23 white metal discs, each engraved with one of Garryowen’s show honours. Worn by

Garryowen at the Dog Show held at the Royal Zoological Society in Dublin in August 1884, where he won

first prize in the champion class of Irish Setter dogs.

Garryowen was born in 1876, bred by H S Moore of Dublin, sired by Champion Palmerston out of

Champion Belle. He was owned by James J Giltrap, a law agent. From his first entry in a dog show, he

won prizes. The Chicago Tribune, 22 February 1890 wrote about his show career: ‘Champion Garryowen

[was] the hero of every bench show in Europe until his death two years ago. Garryowen never had a rival

worthy of the name. His record in brief is thirty-seven firsts, both champion and challenge prizes. He

won the Grand Prix de Honeur of the Belgian Kennel Club as the best of 978 sporting dogs of all breeds,

including five champions, eighty first-prize, forty-two second-prize, and fifteen third-prize winners, at

Antwerp in 1884.’

Garryowen now appears in the extended pedigree of nearly every Irish Setter anywhere in the world.

Garryowen’s portrait was commissioned by Col. J.K. Millner, fromWilliam Osborne RHA and is in the

collection of the National Gallery of Ireland. JJ Giltrap was James Joyce’s great-uncle. Joyce’s Ulysses

mentions Garryowen in three of the episodes (‘Cyclops’, ‘Nausicaa’, and ‘Circe’): “.. famous old Irish Red

Setter Wolfdog formerly known by the sobriquet of

Garryowen”; “Old Garryowen started growling again

at Bloom that was skeezing round the door”; “old

Giltrap’s dog and getting fed up by the ratepayers

and corporators”; “Giltrap’s lovely dog Garryowen

that almost talked it was so human”.

Spillane’s was a well-known Limerick family of

tobacco manufacturers established in 1829 who

named its Plug tobacco after the famous dog. The

logo for the brand shows him resplendent in the

collar decorated with some of his prize medals.

Large metal advertising signs featuring the logo and

the words ‘Smoke Garryowen Plug it satisfies’ were a

familiar sight all over Ireland.