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The History Sale 19th April 2016
A copy of the Classiebawn Castle Guide Book, 1962, cover torn with loss, with a
good ALS laid in on the Castle’s headed notepaper, dated 29th August 1974, to a
named Detective Garda, sending him a photo (not present) ‘As a token of grati-
tude for looking after our family so well’.
With a small framed oil painting of the Castle, similarly inscribed and signed rear.
Louis Lord Mountbatten died some five years later, in 1979, when an IRA unit
detonated explosives in his boat at Classiebawn.
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€ 150 - 250
A TLS with handwritten additions dated 17th December 1962, on Ministry of
Defence headed paper, in thanks for a Christmas card and mentioning his
wife’s death in 1960.
€ 70 - 100
A commerative green silk panel, embroidered with repeated depictions
of Robert Emmet and Henry Joy Mc Gracken, and Wolfe Tone facing Lord Ed-
ward Fitzgerald under an embroidered title 'Remember '98' 59x59cms
€ 100 - 150