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A plain varnished cane walking stick with curved head, approx. 33
ins tall, with a carbon copy of a typed letter from M.W. O’Reilly to a
Miss Heffernan of Leicester Avenue, Rathgar, 9 September 1969,
acknowledging receipt of ‘the Walking Stick of Padraig Pearse’s
which you were kind enough to present me with’.
We cannot say how Miss Heffernan came by the stick, but its
authenticity was evidently accepted by O’Reilly (a 1916 veteran and
head of the New Ireland Assurance Co.).
Provenance: Collection of M.W. O’Reilly, see his biography above.
€ 400 - 600