WHYTE'S THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 17 MAY TO 7 JUNE 2024

25 History THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR · FRIDAY 7 JUNE 2024 47 19th century colour lithograph of Daniel O’Connell. Published by Currier & Ives, New York. 14 by 10in. (35.6 by 25.4cm) Condition: Light overall toning, slight stain in top margin, attractively framed. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 47 48 19th century small collection of autographs including Daniel O’Connell and Oscar Wilde. (15 signatures, 5 pieces) Mainly on small pieces of card or paper, O’Connell on ‘Free Front’ with a small print. Also includes a card by Lady de Bathe (Lily Langtry) to Lady Walpole, Alfred Douglas, etc. Condition: Very good, O’Connell print dark toning and brittle. Most of the signatures will frame well with portraits. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 48 49 1842 Threat of murder sworn statement. Wexford warning 1842 - Sworn signed statement from Valentine Egan, steward to Mrs Celia Rossiter Byrne of Rosemount, Wexford, describing how he was in James Howlett’s Coal Yard in New Ross when a strange man told him that he had been offered 10 shillings and a good coat by James Farrell and John Kavanagh both from Bahana Carlow to shoot him. Farrell and Kavanagh had displayed “two loaded pistols, one with slugs and the other with a bullet”The lot includes a signed statement from“the strange man”Michael Heagan from Newbridge, Kildare and two signed statements, one from John Kavanagh, a prisoner in Carlow Jail and the other from James Farrell, a farmer with 10 acres in Bahana. 9 pages of manuscript. Fascinating content. 12 by 9.50in. (30.5 by 24.1cm) Condition: Slight toning, very good. Estimate €100-€150 (approx £90-£130) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 49