THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR 6 APRIL 2025

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTlON 6 APRIL 2025 123 197 1922. Erskine Childer’s pipe, given to fellow prisoner Paddy Hogan A meerschaum pipe, lacking lid. With a handwritten note by Alice Holroyd Smyth of Ballynatray, Co. Waterford. Condition: Very good. Alice Holroyd Smyth; Catherine ‘Kitty’ Fleming; thence by descent to the present owner. The note reads: “April 11 1925. Erskine Childers’ pipe.....given me by Paddy Hogan, it belonged to W. Erskine Childers who was a ‘Republican’ & was cruelly beaten & then executed by the Free State in 1922. Paddy Hogan (of Youghal) was a prisoner in the same prison...He avoided execution by ‘good luck’ etc.” Signed ‘A.H.B.’ Alice Holroyd Smyth was a Republican sympathiser, despite her Anglo Irish background. Estimate €300-€500 (approx £250-£420) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 197 198 1923 collection of anti-Treaty pamphlets and other publications. Includes MOUNTJOY PRISONERS single sheet, THE FENIANWar Issue 10, FREEDOM no. 1, and no. 4, WAR NEWS No. 6, DAILY SHEET No. 13. Condition: War News 6 distressed, others with some slight faults including water stain on FREEDOM no. 1, generally good. Estimate €150-€200 (approx £130-£170) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 198