WHYTE'S THE HISTORY SALE TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 1-11 NOVEMBER 2023

114 1933 Fine Gael enamel and brass badge. Fine Gael lapel badge with red St. Patrick’s cross on a blue shield and the words Fine Gael written above. Issued for the transition from Cumann na Gael to Fine Gael. 1 by 1in. (2.5 by 2.5cm) Condition: Tiny loss of enamel at left, otherwise very good. Estimate €200-€300 (approx £170-£260) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 114 115 McGuinness, Charles John. Nomad, signed first edition. Methuen, London, 1934, blue cloth, 286pp. Signed on frontispiece photograph of the author and with a signed dedication to Michael Keenan, May 1935. Rare. 7.50 by 5in. (19.1 by 12.7cm) Condition: Covers shook, good. Charles John ‘Nomad’McGuinness (1893 – 1947) was an Irish adventurer supposed to have been involved with a myriad of acts of patriotism and nomadic impulses. In this autobiography, McGuinness summarised himself as an “Irish Sailor, Soldier, Pearl-fisher, Pirate, Gun-runner, Rum-runner, Rebel and Antarctic Explorer”. Primarily a sailor over the course of his life, McGuinness served in several militaries over the course of his life. During the Irish War of Independence McGuinness aided the Irish Republican Army by running guns from Germany by sea. Thereafter McGuinness variously spent time living and working in the United States and Soviet Russia, briefly involved himself in the Spanish Civil War, before return to Ireland for the WorldWar II period. In 1942 he was found guilty while serving as part of the Irish Naval Service of attempting to collaborate with Germany. He is believed to have drowned at sea in 1947. Estimate €300-€500 (approx £260-£430) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 115 THE HISTORY SALE · 1-11 NOVEMBER 2023 History 75