WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 5 MAY 2018

History 137 1943 Munster and Leinster Bank cheques to Irish politicians from Ireland’s biggest bookmaker, PJ Kilmartin. Eighteen cheques dated from 9th to 19th June 1943 in amounts from £10 to £50, payable to high-ranking Fianna Fail, Fine Gael and Labour TD’s. Payees include W Cosgrave, Dan Breen, R Mulcahy, A Byrne, Sean T, O’Kelly, Oscar Traynor and Sean Lemass. Each cheque signed by PJ Kilmartin, stamped ‘Paid’ and countersigned by the payee verso. The Irish general election of 1943 was held on 23 June 1943, having been called on 31 May by proclamation of President Douglas Hyde on the instruction of Taoiseach Éamon de Valera. Mr Kilmartin was, as befits a turf accountant, hedging his bets! Estimate €250-€350 approx (£220-£310 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 137 138 1922-45 German commemorative medals collection Includes Albert Leo Schlageter (2), “Death and Shame”, Adolf Hitler (3) Hermann Goering (3) Schlageter: Bronze and silver medals, 36mm, by Karl Goetz, 1923, a bust of Albert Leo Schlageter, Glüh’ heilge Flamme glüh’ glüh’ u. erlösche nie für’s Vaterland” (Glow Holy Flame! Glow! Glow! Never Die Out For The Fatherland), rev., Schlageter standing before a French military firing squad, Ermordet von den Franzosen!” (Murdered by the French). Hitler: Banco Italo-Venezolano gold medal from series “Chiefs in The SecondWorldWar”, 20.8mm, 6g 22ct, and unknown issuer silver 35mm, 15.4g. Also White porcelain medallion with gilt rim, 90mm. Obverse: bust of Hitler, 1929 1939. Commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Hans Lohnert, Furth. ”Death and Shame”: Brown porcelain with gilt rim by Meissen, 50mm. Obverse showing large ape astride a naked white (German) woman with “RF” (Republique Francaise) badge above. A racist propaganda medal about occupying French Senagalese tropps in Germany. Goering: 1936 uniface bronze, 79.6 x 83.2mm, signed and dated by H. Missfeldt, and white metal medal, 35mm: Obverse bust REICHSMARSCHALL HERMANN GORING / SCHOPFER DER NEVEN DEUTSCHE LUFTWAFFE / 1940. Also a white porcelain plaque, 140mm x 100mm, by K. Weggen, Rosenthal, Bavaria. Estimate €500-€700 approx (£440-£610 approx.) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 138