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

140 History 255 “Shemus” (Ernest Forbes) The Reign of Terror 1920-21. Original cloth gilt, 50pp folio. Forbes’ cartoons from The Freemason’s Journal, satirising the British Government during the War of Independence.” Also The Freeman’s Journal, 31 March 1922, single sheet issue printed after anti-Treaty forces attacked the print room of the newspaper. Condition: Lacking dustjacket, binding loose, slight stains, tone spots, good; the broadsheet toned with edge tears, one 3 inch tear into text, good. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £140-£180) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 255 256 1920-1932 Photographs including Michael Collins, Eamon de Valera, Countess Markievicz, Eucharistic Congress, funerals etc. (130) Includes some reprints, some privately taken and unpublished. Sizes 2 x 2 inches to 5 x 3 inches. Whyte’s, 29 March 1996, lot 346, and 24 May, 1997, lot 569. Condition: Mainly very good. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £180-£270) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 256 257 1920 (20 March) Sunday Express poster “Tomas MacCurtain - Murder of A Mayor”. Three coloured poster, framed. Condition: A few wrinkles, repaired 2 inch tear at top, overall very good. Estimate €500-€700 (approx £450-£640) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 257