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

History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 15 SEPTEMBER AT 11AM 49 1856 British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company. A hand-coloured engraving of the Threadneedle Street offices of the British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company, mounted. The first telegraph link between Britain and Ireland was a submarine cable laid in 1853 from Portpatrick to Donaghadee by the British Telegraph Company. In 1854 A second cable was laid from Portpatrick to Whitehead. The Britidh Telegraph Company’s merger with English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company created the British & Irish Magnetic Telegraph Company. The cables and the Company were taken over by the Post Office in 1870. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 49 50 1862 American Civil War view of Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore. Colour lithograph printed by E. Sachse and Co. Baltimore, scarce Civil War view of Baltimore looking north from Federal Hill. Label verso, ‘ Fort Federalm Hill - Baltimore, MD - May 25th, 1862 - John W. Van Worst, Senior - Member of the 8th Company - of the VII Regiment’. Framed. Estimate €80-€120 (approx £70-£110) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 50 51 1864 Engraved cut-glass tumbler commemorating Major CJ Krauijenhoff, 6th Regiment Huzzars. The glass engraved with a mounted cavalryman, his sword above his head beneath the inscription, ‘Regiment Hussaren No 6’ and the Initials ‘CJK’. A circular hand-written label, in Dutch, to the interior. Estimate €120-€180 (approx £110-£160) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 51 52 1866-67 Irish Republic Twenty Dollars ‘Fenian Bond’. Dated in manuscript March 10th 1866, issuee not entred, signed in block by John O’Mahony, retaining counterfoil. Rare denomination. Scarce large issue Printed by Continental Bank Note Printing Company of New York. These bonds were issued in America to fund the Fenian Rising of 1867 and were ‘redeemable six months after the acknowledgement of the Independence of the Irish Nation’. They were redeemed almost eighty years later by the Irish Government. Any outstanding bonds were thereafter valued only as collectibles, which today rarely show up at auction. Estimate €700-€1,000 (approx £620-£890) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 52