WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 13 MAY 2023

136 History 254 1921 ‘Historic Peace Treaty’ rare contemporaneous poster. Text of the treaty with illustrations of both Irish and British negotiators and of the signed document. Published by J.J. Walsh, Dublin. 22 by 18in. (55.9 by 45.7cm) Condition: Good, folded in 12, splitting repaired by tape to the back, couple small holes, edge tears and slight soiling. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£180) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 254 255 1922 (December) Rear Admiral Cecil H Fox CB who escorted General Macready on his departure from Ireland - his medals and ephemera. Includes 1914-15 Star, War Medal, and Victory Medal as captain, Royal Navy, a cut glass claret jug with silver lid engraved ‘Captain C.H. Fox R.N. from Captain and Officers H.M.S. Undaunted 1916’, Weekly Irish Times of 23 December 1922 featuring a photograph of Admiral Fox with General Macready on board H.M.S. Dragon at Kingstown (Dún Laoghaire) Harbour on 17 December, also a family Fox photograph album 1927-1931. Condition: Weekly Irish Times folded and cut, medals and photographs very fine, jug fine silver in need of cleaning. Cecil Henry Fox, C.B. (1873 -1963) was born 27 May 1873 in Monkstown, Co. Dublin, and joined the Royal Navy in 1886. He was promoted to the rank of Captain on 31 December 1911. He later was captain of HMS Amphion, which on 5 August 1914 sank the German minelayer Königin Luise, the first German naval loss of the war. Amphion was sunk shortly afterwards after striking one of Königin Luise’s mines. Fox transferred to command HMS Undaunted, and on 17 October 1914 took part in the defeat of four German torpedo boats at the Battle off Texel. He was also involved in the Raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas Day, 1914. He retired in 1921 but was given the task of transporting safely the British forces out of the Irish Free State in December 1922. Estimate €1500-€2000 (approx £1,320-£1,750) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 255