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Our forthcoming History Sale will include important rare and unique Irish historical documents and artefacts.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.
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...
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...
Hammer Price: €110
Full DetailsLot 185
C.BERESFORD & CO. - (DATED 19/1/1807)
'Promise to pay Michael Biggin One Hundred Pounds'
Signed by Edward Lawless, Blind stamped Duty paid...
Lot 186
BANK OF LIMERICK (DATED OCT 1812)
One Pound Five Shillings, for George Maunsell, John Kennedy, Robert Hedges Maunsell
Signed by Robt....
Hammer Price: €100
Full DetailsLot 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...
Lot 188
DAVID LATOUCHE ESQ. & SONS DUBLIN (DATED OCTOBER 1781)
Two Hundred and Six Pounds, Fourteen Shillings and Sixpence, for Mr William Norris
Hammer Price: €90
Full DetailsLot 189
BANK OF ENGLAND BANKNOTE (DATED TO 1951)
Five Pounds Signed by chief cashier P.S. Beale
Watermarked and manuscript signature verso
Serial...
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...
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...
Hammer Price: €230
Full DetailsLot 192
NATIONAL LAND BANK LIMITED CHEQUEBOOK (WATERFORD 1921)
A fold-over chequebook contained within a gilt stamped leather binding, logo in English...
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...
Lot 194
MESSRS J. B. BALL & COMPANY (DUBLIN 1832)
Thirty Pounds, for the account of the Dublin, Slane, and Drogheda Turnpike Trustees
Multiple board...
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,...
Lot 196
A FULL SET OF EURO SPECIMEN BANKNOTES, (7 DENOMINATIONS) Consisting of a Ôé¼5, Ôé¼10, Ôé¼20, Ôé¼50, Ôé¼100, Ôé¼200 and...
Hammer Price: €90
Full DetailsLot 197
DEATH OF PARNELL A copy of United Ireland for Saturday Oct. 17 1891, with elaborate account of the funeral of Charles Stewart Parnell,...
Hammer Price: €100
Full DetailsLot 198
PARNELL (CHARLES STEWART) AUTOGRAPH SIGNED NOTE TO DR. (GEORGE) SIGERSON, dated Aug. 20, 1883, 1pp. with cognate blank (folded sheet), on House...
Hammer Price: €180
Full DetailsLot 199
[CHARLES STEWART PARNELL]
A Ladys Ticket to the Parnell National Banquet 1883 [a fund raising event], colour printed, clean; with a memorial...
Hammer Price: €100
Full DetailsLot 200
DANIEL O'CONNELL, 'THE IRISH TUTOR'
An engraving signed HB [John Doyle],...
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...
Lot 202
DAVITT, MICHAEL
An ALS to Joseph Collinson (Of the Humanitarian League) about the abolition of the "British Institution" of the treadmill in...
Hammer Price: €320
Full DetailsLot 203
O'BRIEN, WILLIAM
An ALS to R. D. Williams, thanking his friends in the Carnacon Liberal Association for their message and resolution, which...
Lot 204
O'CONNELL (DANIEL) 'THE LIBERATOR' An original manuscript letter mostly in a secretarial hand, 3pp. (single folded sheet, the signature and...
Hammer Price: €140
Full DetailsLot 205
***WITHDRAWN***
SIR CHARLES GAVAN DUFFY (1816-1903)
His Newgate Prison cell lock cover plate.
The rectangular metal plate painted on both...
Lot 206
CHARLES STUART PARNELL
An ALS to Thomas William Johnson on the subject of compulsory vaccination, on House of Commons blind stamped headed...
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...
Hammer Price: €200
Full DetailsLot 207A
*** Please Note: Illustration in printed catalogue is incorrect***
A LARGE MONOCHROME PHOTOGRAPH depicting what seems to be the Royal...
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...
Hammer Price: €400
Full DetailsLot 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...
Hammer Price: €200
Full DetailsLot 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...
Hammer Price: €100
Full DetailsLot 211
QUEEN VICTORIA'S VISIT, 1900, A PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM
A collection of twelve monochrome photographs depicting Dublin (mostly) at the time of Queen...
Hammer Price: €670
Full DetailsLot 212
ULSTERS OFFICE, DUBLIN CASTLE (SIR ARTHUR VICARS).
The Scale of Precedence in Ireland. By Authority. 1897, first, 16mo red pigskin, 43 pp,...
Hammer Price: €280
Full DetailsLot 213
OSULLIVAN, T.D., M.P.
Prison Poems; or, Lays of Tullamore. Dublin, Nation Office, 1888.
Timothy Daniel Sullivan [1827-1914], born in...
Hammer Price: €180
Full DetailsLot 214
IRISH COAST PILOT. Eighth Edition. 1930.
Published by order of the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty. HMSO 1930.
Roy. 8vo green...
Hammer Price: €160
Full DetailsLot 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...
Hammer Price: €1,500
Full DetailsLot 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...
Hammer Price: €340
Full DetailsLot 219
1916 SINN FÉIN REBELLION HANDBOOK, published by the Weekly Irish Times, 1917 issue, inscribed "Sgt W. Butler, 2nd Royal Irish Fusilers,...
Lot 220
DERRICK FAMILY STATEMENTS 1916.
Handwritten report by Lieut. G. Waterhouse of Dublin Univ. OTC of evidence given by Joseph Derrick, 22 Eustace...
Hammer Price: €90
Full DetailsLot 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...
Hammer Price: €280
Full DetailsLot 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...
Lot 222A
THE OATH. Interesting poster issued by Sinn Fein circa 1930, contrasting the Oath required of newly elected Dail deputies with that taken...
Lot 222B
LE PETIT JOURNAL ILLUSTR, 3RD SEPTEMBER 1922. Front cover colour illustration depicting the death of Michael Collins, headed "Les Convulsions...
Hammer Price: €100
Full DetailsLot 222C
A COLLECTION OF THIRTY-SIX COMMEMORATIVE 10 SHILLING SILVER COINS, 1966, for the fiftieth anniversary of the Rising, Padraig Pearse depicted to...
Hammer Price: €540
Full DetailsLot 223
JOSEPH BRENNANS COPY
THOMS OFFICIAL DIRECTORY of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland for the year 1917. Dublin, Alex Thom 1917. ...
Lot 224
EARLY FIRST HAND ACCOUNT OF THE RISING
McKenzie, F.A., The Irish Rebellion: What Happened - And Why, London, 1916, published within within...
Hammer Price: €150
Full DetailsLot 225
RICHMOND BARRACKS, 1916
A monochrome photographic print, 10 x 6cm, depicting three prisoners and soldiers in Richmond Barracks, 1916, one...
Hammer Price: €280
Full DetailsLot 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...
Hammer Price: €420
Full DetailsLot 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...
Lot 229
BIRRELL & WIMBORNE
Birrell (Augustine), More Obiter Dicta, London, 1924, signed and inscribed by the author, tan cloth boards.
Together...
Hammer Price: €80
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