whytes history & literature date: 8 november 2014 highlights
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History & Literature Date: 8 November 2014 Venue: Freemasons Hall, Molesworth Street Viewing: Wednesday to Friday 5 to 7 November 10am to 5pm daily, at Whyte's galleries, 38 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2. Note: due to closure of entrance to Molesworth Street from Dawson Street drivers have to access Molesworth Street, Setanta and Dawson Car Parks from Kildare Street (which will be two way traffic) between 3 November and 5 December due to roadworks. Pedestrians are unaffected. Lots Featured in this Video: Lot 1 Circa 500BC to 500AD Iron Age. Irish stone head. Estimate € 6000- 8000 Lot 2 500BC to 500AD Iron Age. Irish stone head. Estimate € 5000- 7000 Lot 3 Circa 1200 to 500BC. Celtic twisted gold torc. Estimate € 8000- 100000 Lot 12 17th Century Map. Ortelius, Abraham. Eryn Estimate € 300- 500 Lot 53 Circa 1770 Ibane and Barryroe Infantry cross belt plate Estimate € 1500- 20000 Lot 90 Circa 1850 United Ireland, needlework panel Estimate € 300- 500 Lot 100 1866 Fenian Brotherhood token Estimate € 300- 500 Lot 126 1892 Reward poster for convict John Hynes who escaped from Galway Gaol. Estimate €200- 250 Lot 133 Late 19th & early 20th century Ireland, a collection of seven photographs Estimate €120- 180 Lot 146 1912. Wreck of The Titanic" memoriam print ." Estimate €200- 300 Lot 153 1914 Your King and Country Need You - Enlist Now Estimate €100- 150 Lot 180 Irish Volunteers Belt Estimate €200- 300 Lot 177 1915 Howth Mauser rifle Estimate €800- 1200 Lot 184 1916. Proclamation of The Irish Republic. Estimate €5000- 7000 Lot 186 1916 A Sinn Fein Tricolour Flag flown over one of the buildings occupied by the Irish Volunteers during the Rising. Estimate €30000- 50000 Lot 188 From Padraig Pearse to Joseph Plunkett, signed by Pearse. Estimate €3000- 5000 Lot 203 Eamon Ceannt photograph and postcard Estimate €150- 200 Lot 212 The 1916 Rising Service Medal to William Partridge Estimate €5000- 7000 Lot 217 General Sir J. G. Maxwell's Uniforms Estimate €10000- 15000 Lot 247 1916 Easter Rising, Volunteers fighting, two paintings. Estimate €150- 200 Lot 277 1919 - 1922 War of Independence Arms Cache Estimate €500- 800 Lot 291 1920s Kevin Barry, patriotic allagorical portrait. Estimate €300- 500 Lot 336 Photograph of Michael Collins in Free State Army uniform Estimate €300- 500 Lot 358 1922 A Civil War Prisoner of War painting, Collooney Engagement Estimate €300- 400 Lot 363 1922 (15 August 1922). Manuscript letter written by George Bernard Shaw regarding Dunn and O'Sullivan, to their solicitor. Estimate €1000- 1500 Lot 374 1925. Garda Siochana presentation flag to New York Commissioner of Police. Estimate €1500- 2000 Lot 427 1970 'B'-Specials Final Commemoration Service, Order of Service, signed Estimate €150- 200 Lot 434 1958 Behan, Brendan. Borstal Boy. First Edition Estimate €80- 120 Lot 452 Seamus Heaney, signed & dated greeting card Estimate €150- 200 Lot 487 FigTRANSCRIPT
HISTORY & LITERATURESATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2014
VIEWING At our galleries 38 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 Wednesday to Friday 5 to 7 November 10am to 5pm daily
AUCTION The Freemasons Hall, 17 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 Saturday 8 November at 12 noon