AN IMPOSING IRISH SILVER MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE OBELISK,
Dublin 1861, maker's mark of Samuel le Bas, the plain tapering shaft, on a pediment with the inset inscriptions, on a domed...

AN IMPOSING IRISH SILVER MODEL OF THE BATTLE OF THE BOYNE OBELISK,
Dublin 1861, maker's mark of Samuel le Bas, the plain tapering shaft, on a pediment with the inset inscriptions, on a domed naturalistic rocky base, (hallmarked on the shaft, the pediment, and pediment base.) 83cm high, the base 32cm squared

This silver model is of the obelisk erected on an outcrop of rock just across the river from Oldbridge in 1736, almost 50 years after the battle that took place nearby. The base was twenty feet square and it was one hundred and fifty feet high and was a landmark in the landscape until blown up in the 20th Century.

This model is a valuable record of its appearance and of the inscriptions in the recessed panels. Of course, the triumphalism expressed of "Our Deliverance" and securing "Our Laws and Religion" ensured its ultimate destruction. Those who did this failed to realise that the battle for Irish Independence had been won and the obelisk was a measure of what had to be overcome.

 

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