WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SATURDAY & SUNDAY 25 & 26 July 2020

137 History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · 25 & 26 JULY 2020 246 1917-1920 collection of picture postcards including Thomas Ashe, Tomas MacCurtain and Terence MacSwiney (13) Includes In Memoriam card for Ashe by City Printers Limerick, illustration of “The Fight at Ashbourne”, real photographic postcards of the lying-in-state of MacCurtain and MacSwiney, also a couple of others including Kevin Barry, etc. Condition: Postcards unused, generally very good, memoriam card also very good. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 246 247 1918 Defence of The Realm Act (DORA) Permit to carry arms in Ireland and other military ephemera. (4) Issued to Walter Till, artist (See lot . also 1915 Dollymount Camp Pass, 1919 letter from R.I.C., 1917 Royal Barracks Dublin dance card. Whyte’s, 13 November 1993, lot 1092. Condition: Good, heavy folds, slightly split, edge tears. Estimate €80-€100 (approx £70-£90) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 247 248 1918-1940. an interesting archive concerning Tim (Tadhg) Lynch of Kinsale, Irish Volunteer, prisoner, later Irish Army officer. The archive includes 1918 letters with censor marks (10) to and from Tim Lynch at various prisons including Belfast, other letters refer to military and political matters circa 1918 in the Kinsale area, a typescript report of his court appearance, later includes a 1920 Dail Eireann court arbitration of a labour dispute in Kinsale, a 1931 typescript note on a Kinsale Council decision to set a 54 hours work week, 1940 Defence Forces commissions (2) appointing Tadgh Lynch an officer, one signed by President Douglas Hyde, the other signed by President Sean T O’Kelly, both signed by Taoiseach Eamon de Valera and Defence Minister Oscar Traynor, a 1939-46 Emergency Service certificate signed by Tom Higgins, Minister for Defence, along with 1940 military maps. Photographs (5) include two of prisoners in Ballykinlar Camp, a destroyed building (Cork 1920?), a group of ladies with Irish National Aid collection boxes, family group including men in Irish Volunteer uniforms, 1940 Officers Class Military College, Curragh Camp, etc. Condition: Mixed condition, some foxing, edge tears, adhesions from being mounted for display, but generally good to very good. Estimate €500-€700 (approx £450-£640) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 248