WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY 6 APRIL 2019 AT 11AM

18th to 20th Century 61 1821 Visit of George IV to Ireland, a pair of coloured aquatints. A pair of 19th century coloured aquatints by Robert Havell after Joseph Haverty RHA (1794-1864) The Triumphant Entry of George IV into Dublin. His Majesty’s Arrival, His Majesty’s Embarkation, each Estimate €800-€1200 (approx £700-£1,050) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 61 62 George IV gold-mounted bog-oak walking stick. The handle mounted with a gold plate engraved with a Hanoverian Royal Coat of Arms and the initials ‘AF’, the shaft relief carved with bands of shamrock and chequering above a deep band of shamrock, over spiralling, carved, geometric motifs, the handle pierced for a thong or strap with gold shamrock escutcheons engraved, ‘Erin go Bragh’. Length Patrick McGuirk is generally credited as being the first professional practitioner of the craft of bog oak carving. In 1821 he presented a carved oak walking stick to King George IV during the monarch’s visit to Dublin. Estimate €500-€700 (approx £440-£610) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 62 63 1807-1830 Political catoons. Four various hand-coloured cartoons of Irish interest, including O’Connell andWellington on the passing of the Catholic Relief Act 1829 Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£260) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 63 64 1818 Spurious tea making, statement by Excise Officer. Statement by Joseph Daffron, Officer of Excise who, acting on information, “went to the house of Margaret Farrell of Crosslow in the Barony of Rathvilly and found a quantity of leaves in process and a further quantity finished as imitation or spurious Tea and found her drying and sorting the above fabrication...and that said Composition was for sale”. Sworn before Pilsworth Whelan, Magistrate, 25th September 1818. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click Here for Large Images & To Bid 64