WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2018 AT 11AM

History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 15 SEPTEMBER AT 11AM 33 Child-birth in 19th century Dublin, Townsend Street Lying-In Institution, certificate permitting a male midwife to practise. A single sheet letterpress certificate issued by ‘Institutio Parturientium’, dated 1 May, 1835, with (undecipherable) red wax seal attached and signed Jacobus Grant, in tin case; together with a red wax seal of the ‘Lying In Institution - Townsend St - Master - BRS’, in tin case. (2) Estimate €300-€400 (approx £270-£360) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 33 34 1830s English ceramic anti-slavery wares. A Sunderland pink lustreware jug decorated to one side with a ship under full sail and to the other with an anti-slavery poem; and a Turnbull, Staffordshire earthenware plate with a scene of a prayer meeting in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; also a 1983 Wedgwood jasperware dish commemorating 150th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in the British Empire in 1833; and an enamelled bronze figural match holder in the form of a slave, labelled to base, ‘Gustavus Olouda Equiano’. (4) Height of jug Olouda Equiano (c. 1745-97) was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria. Enslaved as a child, he was taken to the Caribbean and sold as a slave to a captain in the Royal Navy, and later to a Quaker trader. In 1766 he earned his own freedom by intelligent trading and careful savings. He was a prominent abolitionist and his autobiography, published in 1789, helped in the creation of the Slave Trade Act 1807, which curbed the slave trade in the British Empire. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 34 35 Thomason`s Medallic Illustrations of the Holy Scriptures Twelve William IV white metal medals by Sir Edward Thomason in original leather-bound and gilt-embossed volume with label inside `struck at the works of C R Collis successor to Sir E Thomason, Church Street, Birm`, circa 1830, illustrated in relief with scenes from Genesis, the reverse with the relevant verses of Scripture and a date, each medal 73mm. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 35