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A portrait plaque of Padraig Pearse, hand painted plaster,
depicting him in profile as usual, 13cm high. Together with a portrait
memorial card for Sean Heuston, cased. (2)
€80 - €120
758
A 19th Century oval painted plaster Home Rule plaque, relief
moulded with depiction of a man in a tail coat and tam o shanter hat
carving on a headstone the inscription ‘’In memoriam, Home Rule Bill
murdered in the House of Lords, 8th Sept 1898, Resurcam...’’, with
thistle and shamrock within a wreath border and bearing signature “A.
George” verso, 34cm high.
€200 - €400
759
Eamon DeValera Commemorative Plate, by Royal Irish
Limited, Dublin 1973, additional mark to commemorate Ireland’s entry
to the European Community, The circular plate engraved with a portrait
of Eamon DeValera, engraved verso “Limited Edition of 2500, No.
1237 “. Accompanied by a handbook giving an account of DeValera’s
presidency etc. All contained within original case.
€120 - €160
760
AN ORIGINAL BLUE-SHIRT COSTUME, 1930s, with the ‘Fine
Gael’ badge sewn on, minor staining but generally very good. These
shirts, worn by adherents of General O’Duffy on parade and security
duty, are now very scarce.
€800 - €1,200
761
A RARE VICTORIAN FAMINE ENGRAVED GLASS TUMBLER,
comemorating the loss of the emigrant ship The Govenor Fenner, in
1845 in the Irish Sea. The body engraved with the scene when the
barque Govenor Fenner collided with the steamer ‘The Nottingham’,
and engraved with initials and dated 1845, carrying 107 mostly Irish
emigrants and 17 crew, 122 were drowned. The Govenor Fenner was
owned and built in New York and was New York bound at the time of the
accident, 11cm tall
€400 - €600
762
A 19th CENTURY GREEN ENSIGN FLAG, with gold winged
Hibernia harp on a green ground and Union Jack in the canton, possibly
used as an unofficial ensign by Irish Merchant vessels before 1919, ends
are machine sewn, 73 x 45cm
€200 - €300
763
A 19TH CENTURY SCRIMSHAW WALRUS TUSK, engraved to the exterior
with two frigates titled ‘President’ and ‘Trincomalee’ before a whaling scene, pierced
tip for suspension, 47cm long
€1,000 - €1,500
764
SECTION OF THE DIRECT UNITED STATES TRANSATLANTIC
TELEGRAPHIC CABLE
1874, 41cm long.
In order to circumvent the monopoly of the Transatlantic Cable, the Siemens brothers
were persuaded in 1873 to launch the Direct United States Cable Company to
construct and lay an independent cable from Ballinskelligs in Co. Kerry to Tor Bay in
Nova Scotia and thence to Rye Beach in New hampshire. Siemens commissioned
a special cable-laying paddle steamer the CS Faraday in 1873 and a year later
in commenced operations, initially from Rye Beach to Tor Bay, and then from
ballinskelligs to Tor Bay, the entire cable being completed successfully in 1875.
Together with a mounted print depicting the Faraday off the coast of Kerry.
€500 - 800
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