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THE HISTORY SALE

EASTER 2016

19 April 2016 - 3:00 pm

Our forthcoming History Sale will include important rare and unique Irish historical documents and artefacts. This year will mark the 10th year of this annual specialist auction which has proved to be the largest sale of its kind, attracting collectors throughout Ireland and further afield. Covering a broad range of political, literary and military history, this prestigious auction will continue to be the best place to buy and sell Irish collectibles.

 

 

We are currently preparing our forthcoming catalogue. Please contact us for more information and for complimentary and confidential advice.

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Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th April 1pm - 5pm
Monday 18th April 10am - 5pm
Tuesday 19th April (day of sale) 10am - 1pm

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Lot 183

BANK POST BILL (DATED 1819)

Dublin, 12 Upper Ormond Quay

Three Pounds, for the Hon. Charles FFrench, Henry Taffe, Mich. Morris, Wm Keary...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

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Lot 184

DUBLIN BANKNOTE (DATED 1813)

One Pound Two Shillings and Nine Pence, for the Hon. Charles FFrench, Henry Taffe, Mich. Morris, Wm Keary, Thomas...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €110

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Lot 185

C.BERESFORD & CO. - (DATED 19/1/1807)

'Promise to pay Michael Biggin One Hundred Pounds'

Signed by Edward Lawless, Blind stamped Duty paid...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €120

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Lot 186

BANK OF LIMERICK (DATED OCT 1812)

One Pound Five Shillings, for George Maunsell, John Kennedy, Robert Hedges Maunsell

Signed by Robt....

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €100

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Lot 187

MESSRS J. B. BALL & CO., DUBLIN (DATED 6/3/1855)

Thirteen Pounds, six Shillings and Six pence, for William Waldron,

Stamped PAID and red...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €120

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Lot 188

DAVID LATOUCHE ESQ. & SONS DUBLIN (DATED OCTOBER 1781)

Two Hundred and Six Pounds, Fourteen Shillings and Sixpence, for Mr William Norris

Estimate EUR: €100 - €120

Hammer Price: €90

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Lot 189

BANK OF ENGLAND BANKNOTE (DATED TO 1951)

Five Pounds Signed by chief cashier P.S. Beale

Watermarked and manuscript signature verso

Serial...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

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Lot 190

BANK OF IRELAND (DUBLIN 3/2/1795)

One Hundred Pounds, for Thos WHaley and James Boughton

Manuscript banknote over stamped in red ink, on laid...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €220

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Lot 191

PROVINCIAL BANK OF IRELAND (DATED JAN 1ST 1915)

One Pound for the bearer

Blue ink print with manuscript signature of John Kidd

Serial...

Estimate EUR: €140 - €160

Hammer Price: €230

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Lot 192

NATIONAL LAND BANK LIMITED CHEQUEBOOK (WATERFORD 1921)

A fold-over chequebook contained within a gilt stamped leather binding, logo in English...

Estimate EUR: €230 - €250

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Lot 193

MESSRS J. B. BALL & COMPANY (DATED 21ST SEPT 1832)

One Pound and Three Shillings and four pence, for the account of the Dublin, Slane, and...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €100

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Lot 194

MESSRS J. B. BALL & COMPANY (DUBLIN 1832)

Thirty Pounds, for the account of the Dublin, Slane, and Drogheda Turnpike Trustees

Multiple board...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €100

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Lot 195

BALL AND CO., DUBLIN (DATED TO 1832) A manuscript banknote for twenty two Pounds, three shillings and eight pence Signed by Patrick Mooney,...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €120

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Lot 196

A FULL SET OF EURO SPECIMEN BANKNOTES, (7 DENOMINATIONS) Consisting of a Ôé¼5, Ôé¼10, Ôé¼20, Ôé¼50, Ôé¼100, Ôé¼200 and...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €90

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Lot 197

DEATH OF PARNELL A copy of United Ireland for Saturday Oct. 17 1891, with elaborate account of the funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell,...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €100

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Lot 198

PARNELL (CHARLES STEWART) AUTOGRAPH SIGNED NOTE TO DR. (GEORGE) SIGERSON, dated Aug. 20, 1883, 1pp. with cognate blank (folded sheet), on House...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €180

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Lot 199

[CHARLES STEWART PARNELL]

A Ladys Ticket to the Parnell National Banquet 1883 [a fund raising event], colour printed, clean; with a memorial...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €120

Hammer Price: €100

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Lot 200

DANIEL O'CONNELL, 'THE IRISH TUTOR'

An engraving signed HB [John Doyle],...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €400

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Lot 201

DANIEL O'CONNELL (1775-1847)

Autograph envelope signed and addressed in his hand, dated 1835 with postal mark. Signed to the lower left...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

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Lot 202

DAVITT, MICHAEL
An ALS to Joseph Collinson (Of the Humanitarian League) about the abolition of the "British Institution" of the treadmill in...

Estimate EUR: €120 - €180

Hammer Price: €320

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Lot 203

O'BRIEN, WILLIAM
An ALS to R. D. Williams, thanking his friends in the Carnacon Liberal Association for their message and resolution, which...

Estimate EUR: €120 - €180

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Lot 204

O'CONNELL (DANIEL) 'THE LIBERATOR' An original manuscript letter mostly in a secretarial hand, 3pp. (single folded sheet, the signature and...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €140

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Lot 205

***WITHDRAWN***
SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY (1816-1903)

His Newgate Prison cell lock cover plate.

The rectangular metal plate painted on both...

Estimate EUR: €1,000 - €2,000

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Lot 206

CHARLES STUART PARNELL

An ALS to Thomas William Johnson on the subject of compulsory vaccination, on House of Commons blind stamped headed...

Estimate EUR: €1,000 - €1,500

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Lot 207

1893 HOME RULE BILL- PETITION BY MEMBERS OF THE DUBLIN STOCK EXCHANGE AGAINST IT.

Letterpress, 41 by 25cm., 16 by 10in, John Sweetman MP...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €200

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Lot 207A

*** Please Note: Illustration in printed catalogue is incorrect***

A LARGE MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPH depicting what seems to be the Royal...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €400

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Lot 208

A BRONZE DEATH MASK OF THE IRISH NATIONALIST AND REPUBLICAN ROBERT EMMETT (1778-1803), cast in bronze, c. 20cm long, from the original...

Estimate EUR: €400 - €600

Hammer Price: €400

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Lot 209

A RARE VICTORIAN FAMINE ENGRAVED GLASS TUMBLER, comemorating the loss of the emigrant ship The Govenor Fenner, in 1845 in the Irish Sea. The...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €200

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Lot 210

START OF THE IRISH NAVAL SERVICE A very rare mounted photograph, circa 3 ins x 8 ins, showing about sixty uniformed members of the Maritime...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €100

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Lot 211

QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT, 1900, A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM

A collection of twelve monochrome photographs depicting Dublin (mostly) at the time of Queen...

Estimate EUR: €400 - €600

Hammer Price: €670

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Lot 212

ULSTERS OFFICE, DUBLIN CASTLE (SIR ARTHUR VICARS).

The Scale of Precedence in Ireland. By Authority. 1897, first, 16mo red pigskin, 43 pp,...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €280

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Lot 213

OSULLIVAN, T.D., M.P.

Prison Poems; or, Lays of Tullamore. Dublin, Nation Office, 1888.

Timothy Daniel Sullivan [1827-1914], born in...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €180

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Lot 214

IRISH COAST PILOT. Eighth Edition. 1930.

Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. HMSO 1930.

Roy. 8vo green...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €120

Hammer Price: €160

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Lot 217

KEARNEY (PEADAR), THE SOLDIER'S SONG, FIRST EDITION WITH MUSIC

Four printed pages, in two parts, 31 x 24cm approx.. Written in 1909-1910 by...

Estimate EUR: €1,500 - €2,000

Hammer Price: €1,500

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Lot 218

1916 IRISH WAR NEWS, VOL. 1 NO. 1, Dublin, April 25
Includes "STOP PRESS! THE IRISH REPUBLIC" announcing on the back page the Rising. 4 pages...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €340

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Lot 219

1916 SINN FÉIN REBELLION HANDBOOK, published by the Weekly Irish Times, 1917 issue, inscribed "Sgt W. Butler, 2nd Royal Irish Fusilers,...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

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Lot 220

DERRICK FAMILY STATEMENTS 1916.

Handwritten report by Lieut. G. Waterhouse of Dublin Univ. OTC of evidence given by Joseph Derrick, 22 Eustace...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €90

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Lot 221

ROGER CASEMENT LITHOGRAPHIC PRINT from the original drawn from life in 1916 by Prof. L. Fanto, Art Director, State Theatre, Saxony, 37 x 28cm...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €280

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Lot 222

IRISH PRESS NEWSPAPER, Vol. 1 no. 1, Saturday Sept. 5 1931. A clean copy of the first issue, with 2 page TLS from the news editor Robert Egan...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €400

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Lot 222A

THE OATH. Interesting poster issued by Sinn Fein circa 1930, contrasting the Oath required of newly elected Dail deputies with that taken...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €400

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Lot 222B

LE PETIT JOURNAL ILLUSTR, 3RD SEPTEMBER 1922. Front cover colour illustration depicting the death of Michael Collins, headed "Les Convulsions...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €100

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Lot 222C

A COLLECTION OF THIRTY-SIX COMMEMORATIVE 10 SHILLING SILVER COINS, 1966, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Rising, Padraig Pearse depicted to...

Estimate EUR: €400 - €600

Hammer Price: €540

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Lot 223

JOSEPH BRENNANS COPY

THOMS OFFICIAL DIRECTORY of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1917. Dublin, Alex Thom 1917. ...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €250

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Lot 224

EARLY FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE RISING

McKenzie, F.A., The Irish Rebellion: What Happened - And Why, London, 1916, published within within...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

Hammer Price: €150

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Lot 225

RICHMOND BARRACKS, 1916

A monochrome photographic print, 10 x 6cm, depicting three prisoners and soldiers in Richmond Barracks, 1916, one...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

Hammer Price: €280

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Lot 227

2/6th BATTALION THE SHERWOOD FORESTERS 1914-1918 - Its Part in the Defeat of the Irish Rebellion 1916

by GJ Edmunds in 1960, and privately...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

Hammer Price: €420

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Lot 228

THE MAN SENT TO PUT DOWN THE REBELLION

A clipping with General John Grenfell Maxwells rare signature mounted with sepia portrait print, 35.5 x...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

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Lot 229

BIRRELL & WIMBORNE

Birrell (Augustine), More Obiter Dicta, London, 1924, signed and inscribed by the author, tan cloth boards.

Together...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €80

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