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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Our forthcoming History Sale will include important rare and unique Irish historical documents and artefacts.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 277A

***ADDITIONAL LOT***
IRISH TRANSPORT & GENERAL WORKERS UNION A membership card issued to Wesley Higginson, dated 24.4.13, with the manuscript...

Estimate EUR: €60 - €100

Hammer Price: €60

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Lot 278

ARMY OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC

JAMES CONNOLLY: HIS LAST DESPATCH FROM THE G.P.O., 1916

A cyclostyled document, printed in purple ink, 1 pp...

Estimate EUR: €1,000 - €1,500

Hammer Price: €1,200

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Lot 278A

CAPTAIN ARTHUR DELANEY, 10th BATTALION OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS

An archive pertaining to Arthur Delaney, Captain in the 10th battalion...

Estimate EUR: €500 - €1,000

Hammer Price: €720

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Lot 278B

GALOOT: THE JOURNAL OF THE 5TH BATTALION OF THE ROYAL DUBLIN FUSILIERS
No 1 (Sep 1915), No 2 (Oct 1916), No 3 (Nov 1916), Nov 4 (Dec-Jan...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €750

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Lot 279

THE MÁIRE GILL COLLECTION

A significant archive of letters and documents from the collection of Máire (Molly) Gill, a life-long employee of...

Estimate EUR: €1,500 - €2,000

Hammer Price: €6,500

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Lot 280

CUALA PRESS.

A collection including about ten hand-coloured greeting cards, mainly early issues, with a few duplicates, an envelope...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €100

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Lot 281

ST. DOMINICS PRESS, Ditchling, Sussex

A small collection of four printed Rhyme-Sheets, circa 8 ins x 5 ins, letterpress printed on laid...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €80

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Lot 282

CLARKE, KATHLEEN. LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN. An attractive New Year remembrance card from the Mansion House, 4 pp (single folded sheet), on heavy...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €250

Hammer Price: €270

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Lot 283

EAMONN CEANNT AND SIR CHARLES CAMERON

A menu card for the Ninth Annual Dinner of the D.M.O.A. (Dublin Municipal Officers Association), 4 pp...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €250

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Lot 285

50 COPIES ONLY PUBLISHED - ST. ENDAS COLLEGE.
AN SCOLÁIRE, 1913. Desmond Ryans set.

An extensive run (probably complete) of this very...

Estimate EUR: €2,000 - €3,000

Hammer Price: €1,900

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Lot 286

PEARSE, P.H. (EDITOR). AN MACAOMH. VOL. II. NO. 2 [MAY 1913].

The final number of Pearses periodical published at St. Endas, ,...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €70

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Lot 287

SELF-DETERMINATION LEAGUE OF GREAT BRITAIN PROPAGANDA POSTERS (5)

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €70

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Lot 288

THE SHAN VAN VOCHT, A MONTHLY RREPUBLICAN MAGAZINE EDITED BY ALICE MILLIGAN AND PUBLISHED IN BELFAST
Single issue, central pages in photocopy

Estimate EUR: €50 - €100

Hammer Price: €110

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Lot 289

A COLLECTION OF DOCUMENTS RELATING TO PEACE NEGOTIATIONS OF 1921 including Dail Eirann Official Correspondence relating to the Peace...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

Hammer Price: €300

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Lot 290

POLITICAL LEAFLETS

A very good collection of circa 30 political leaflets for the General Elections of 1932, 1938, 1943, 1944, 1947, also...

Estimate EUR: €80 - €120

Hammer Price: €150

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Lot 291

CIRCA 1900S-1920S. REBEL SONGS AND VERSE INCLUDING THE SOLDIER'S SONG, THE WALLS OF DERRY, SAVE THE PEELERS, THE MEN OF THE BOLD IRA, ETC.

Estimate EUR: €300 - €400

Hammer Price: €440

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Lot 292

THE FIRST DAIL

O'Connor (Fergus) Publisher. "The Declaration of Irish Independence." Official English Translation. Historic Pronouncement of...

Estimate EUR: €400 - €600

Hammer Price: €520

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Lot 293

1919 DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
Declaration of Independence. Scéal on Dáil Chum Saor-Náisiun An Domhain. Message to the Free Nations and...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €480

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Lot 294

1919 DAIL EIREANN FIRST MEETING ADMISSION TICKET
Issued to S. Ní Bhraonáin by Piaras Beaslaí TD who later wrote Michael Collins biography....

Estimate EUR: €150 - €250

Hammer Price: €270

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Lot 295

1919 DAIL EIREANN FIRST MEETING 21 JANUARY ADMITTANCE CARD SIGNED BY HARRY BOLAND
Issued to Gregory Ashe (father of Thomas Ashe) and D....

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €500

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Lot 296

THE REPUBLICAN OATH
A printed document dated 13 June 1921, text in Irish and in English, addressed to Mrs. Clarke as duly elected member (of...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €440

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Lot 297

SINN FEIN A RANGE OF PAMPHLETS, LEAFLETS, NOTICES, ARD FHEIS TICKETS including 1922, etc. Including Ethics of Sinn Féin, Scheme of Organisation...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €320

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Lot 298

AUSTIN CLARKE The Sun Dances at Easter. A Romance. London, Melrose, 1952, First Edition. Inscribed on f.e.p., Sean MacBride / With best wishes...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

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Lot 299

***ADDITIONAL LOT***
REPUBLICAN PRISONER ART
A 'Volunteer Doll' made in 1929 by prisoner J. Bracken who was held at Ballykinlear internment...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

Hammer Price: €80

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Lot 300

CLÁR NA CUAIRD. DECORATION DAY, 15 NOVEMBER 1917.

A printed List of Graves in Glasnevin of those who gave their lives for Ireland,...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €100

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Lot 301

BATTLE OF ASHBOURNE, 1916 R.I.C. Defeated: Leabhar Cuimhneachain 1916 - Ashbourne Memorial Book, 8vo D. c. 1960. A Souvenir Booklet, illus....

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €280

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Lot 302

ODONOVAN ROSSA MEMORIAL COMMITTEE

A good example of the original photograph showing the full Committee, 1915, 11 x 15 ins, including De Valera...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

Hammer Price: €520

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Lot 303

THOMAS ASHE FUNERAL

A card admitting bearer to the graveside, Glasnevin, Sunday Sept. 30th [1917], signed by Sean McGarry, President, Wolfe...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €340

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Lot 304

DENIS 'DINNY' LACEY (1889-1923)

A monochrome memorial card, c. 14 x 8.5cm, with oval portrait between the inscriptions 'Died for Ireland, Feb...

Estimate EUR: €150 - €250

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Lot 305

A RECTANGULAR METAL PLATE LITOGRAPHIC PRINTING PLATE designed to produce the well known known oval portrait of Kevin Barry, the plate 12.5cm x...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €200

Hammer Price: €50

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Lot 306

ASSOCIATION COPY
[Plunkett (Joseph M.)] Signatory of The 1916 Proclamation. Da Vinci (Leonardo). A Treatise on Painting, 8vo L. 1721 FIRST...

Estimate EUR: €400 - €600

Hammer Price: €350

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Lot 307

DAIL EIREANN.

Minutes of Proceedings, Official Record, 1919-21; December 1921-January 1922 (Treaty Debate); August 1921-June 1922. 3 vols green...

Estimate EUR: €150 - €250

Hammer Price: €170

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Lot 308

LIAM DE ROISTE'S COPY DAIL EIREANN 1919 - 1922 Minutes of Proceedings of the First Parliament of the Republic of Ireland 1919 - 1921 - Official...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €300

Hammer Price: €200

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Lot 309

PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST DAIL DAIL EIREANN: DAIL EIREANN.

Tuairisc Infheidhmeach ar Sheiseon an Mheithimh, 17adh - 19adh (Session June 17 -...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €400

Hammer Price: €150

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Lot 310

MICHAEL COLLINS - DAIL EIREANN

An Cheud Tionol [First Assembly], Dia Mairt [Tuesday] 21 Eanair [January] 1919. Admission ticket issued to...

Estimate EUR: €1,200 - €1,600

Hammer Price: €1,400

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Lot 311

"FOR THEIR COUNTRY THEY DIED"

An attractive contemporary memorial depicting Padraig Pearse, Tom Clarke, Edward Daly, Thomas MacDonagh and The...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €400

Hammer Price: €120

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Lot 312

FIANNA FAIL. PRESIDENT DEVALERA AND HIS CABINET. Colour printed poster showing photographic portraits of De Valera and nine members of his...

Estimate EUR: €300 - €500

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Lot 313

ILLUMINATED ADDRESS OF WELCOME PRESENTED BY THE LORD MAYOR OF DUBLIN TO IVOR BARON WIMBORNE, Lord Lieutenant General; and Governor General of...

Estimate EUR: €200 - €400

Hammer Price: €480

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Lot 314

MOUNTBATTEN OF BURMA

A copy of the Classiebawn Castle Guide Book, 1962, cover torn with loss, with a good ALS laid in on the Castles headed...

Estimate EUR: €150 - €250

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Lot 315

LORD MOUNTBATTEN
A TLS with handwritten additions dated 17th December 1962, on Ministry of Defence headed paper, in thanks for a Christmas...

Estimate EUR: €70 - €100

Hammer Price: €70

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Lot 315A

[1798 REBELLION]

A commerative green silk panel, embroidered with repeated depictions of Robert Emmet and Henry Joy Mc Gracken, and Wolfe Tone...

Estimate EUR: €100 - €150

Hammer Price: €30

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Lot 316

1916 ALLMANS PURE IRISH POT STILL WHISKEY
40 Under Proof (34%abv), fill level to shoulder, with driven cork showing visible shrinking, all...

Estimate EUR: €6,000 - €10,000

Hammer Price: €6,600

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Lot 317

THEUNIS, JACOBSZ.(1606-1650)

Printer and publisher, also known as Lootsman (Pilot), issued in 1643 De Lichtende Columne ofte Zee-Spiegel. As...

Estimate EUR: €600 - €800

Hammer Price: €550

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Lot 317A

AJOSEPH HUDDART
A Chart of the North Coast of Ireland
Laurie & Whittle (1794). 795 x 525

Provenance: The Richard S.J. Clarke...

Estimate EUR: €150 - €250

Hammer Price: €70

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Lot 317B

ABRAHAM ORTELIUS (MINIATURE)
Ireland
Plate 3. Engraved by Philip Galle. Published by Peter Heyns (1603). English text. Abl P96.

Estimate EUR: €50 - €100

Hammer Price: €50

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Lot 318

GERARD MERCATOR (1512-1594)
A Set a Five Maps
From the English Edition of Mercator's Atlas Minor. This edition 1635. English text on verso...

Estimate EUR: €150 - €250

Hammer Price: €90

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Lot 318A

GERARD MERCATOR (1512-1594)
The Complete Irish Section (five maps and six pages of text)
From Mercator's Atlas Minor with Cloppenburg...

Estimate EUR: €180 - €280

Hammer Price: €240

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Lot 318B

JOAN BLAEU (1596-1673)
A Set of Six Maps
Ireland, the Four Provinces and Caterlogh. From the Latin edition of 1662, the maps having the...

Estimate EUR: €1,000 - €1,500

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