Whyte's THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 18 APRIL 2026

THE ECLECTIC COLLECTOR - TIMED ON-LINE AUCTION 18 APRIL 2026 69 113 1914 (April). The Ulster Volunteer Force gun running - accounts by Captain Hall, Military Secretary. Includes Hall’s typewritten account of the Gun Running, the ‘Ulster Coup’ of 24 April 1914, as recollected in 1934, with typescript note ‘This throws rather a lurid light on JAMES CRAIG. It should be treated as CONFIDENTIAL’; letter of 25 September 1914 from FH suggesting questions to be put to the Ulster Unionist Council at their meeting, a manuscript dated 15 February 2015 with a differing view of the gun running. Later material: File of papers about the Ulster Covenant Jubilee, 1962, including correspondence between Frank Hall and Lord Brookeborough [Basil Brooke, Prime Minister of Northern Ireland], and with the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland [PRONI] with reference to FH’s gun-running narrative (presumably the 1934 typescript included above) which he does not wish to be made public. Also photographs of Ballyedmond Castle, now the property of Lady Ballyedmond. Condition: Mainly very good to fine. Provenance: Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hall & MI5; By descent to the previous owner; Their sale, Chorley’s, 22 March 2016, ex lot 525; Private collection. Estimate €2,000-€3,000 (approx £1,740-£2,610) Click here for more images and to bid on this lot 113