WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 5 MAY 2018 AT 11AM 89 1920 United States Navy warship designs. A hand-coloured lithograph, ‘Projected Battle-Ship and Battle-Cruiser for the United States Navy, as published in the Engineer. Mounted. 14.50 by 20in. (36.8 by 50.8cm) Estimate €120-€180 approx (£100-£160 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 89 90 1914 Na Fianna, Irish National Boy Scouts, Handbook Central Council of na Fianna, Dublin, 1914. 8vo, publisher’s illustrated printed wrappers. Includes chapters on Chivalry, Drill, Rifle Excercises (including a diagram of the Lee-Enfield SMLE Mk III), Signalling and First Aid with an introduction and illustrations by Countess Markievicz. Very rare. Na Fianna Éireann, known as the Fianna, is an Irish nationalist youth organisation founded by Bulmer Hobson and Constance Markievicz in 1909. Fianna members were involved in the setting up of the armed nationalist body the Irish Volunteers, and had their own circle of the Irish Republican Brotherhood (IRB). They took part in the 1914 Howth gun-running and (as Volunteer members) in the 1916 Easter Rising. Estimate €300-€500 approx (£260-£440 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 90 91 1916 Rising leader, Pádraig Pearse - signature on a cheque. Royal Bank of Ireland, Terenure cheque for nine shillings and sixpence to Patrick Walsh of Kilbricken, dated 9th January 1914, signed “Pádraic Mac Piarais”, attractively framed with a reproduction photograph. Estimate €800-€1,000 approx (£700-£870 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 91