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EARLY 19TH CENTURY CORK SAVING BANK BOOK AND POUND NOTE
A Cork Savings Bank book, stamped 1817, with a few entries, together with a €1 Cork Bank Note, dated 1825 and signed by Charles Henry Leslie, w.a.f. (2)
€50 - €100
781
RARE CLONMELL [CLONMEL] BANK NOTE
Circa 1790, for six shillings, unissued, signed “Chal. Riall” and engraved “For William Riall, Charles Riall and Arthur Riall”, bearing date “17__ “ so earlier than the
1802 date given in Paper Money of Ireland by Bob Blake and Jonathan Callaway.
€300 - €400
782
FREE STATE CHEQUES
A very good collection of 40 paid cheques issued mainly by prominent members of the Free State Army, 1922 and later, including Gen. Sean Mac Eoin ( 5 cheques),
Owen O’Duffy ( 4), Col. Felix Cronin (6), Lieut. Joseph Williams (Bantry, 4), Capt. D. Lehane (2), E. O Nuanain (2), Donnchadh O hAnnagain and various others, with
one blank unwritten cheque. One cheque (fully filled out) is stamped CANCELLED. One cheque has a Rialtas Sealadach na hEireann overprinted postage stamp.
Most of the cheques are countersigned to rear. Many of the cheques are for large amounts - two from Gen. Mac Eoin are for €500 and €2,000, and many others are
in the hundreds. Presumably some were for supply payments. They give an interesting impression of the sums of money which apparently were readily available
to Free State officers. The payees are generally other Army officers, including Col. Cmdt. Alex McCabe, Seamus O’Farrelly Cmdt. Gen., C’dant P.A. Mulcahy,
Brigadier Gen. Hannigan, etc. Some are payable to ‘Self’ or to the signatory using his name and rank. One of Gen. MacEoin’s cheques is payable to Imperial Hotel
Claremorris (for €7.5.9d). General Sean MacEoin, the ‘Blacksmith of Ballinalee’, was one of the most significant personalities of the independence struggle. He was
a close friend of Collins, who delayed implementation of the ‘Truce’ in 1921 until the British agreed not to execute the death sentence outstanding against MacEoin.
He took the Free State side in the Civil War, as head of Western Command. Owen O’Duffy, also an associate of Collins, was assistant chief of staff of the Free State
Army from January 1922; he became head of the Garda in September. Col. Felix Cronin is best known as the later husband of Collins’ sweetheart Kitty Kiernan.
As a collection.
€600 - €1,000
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Lot 780
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