ADAM'S - SILVER FROM THE COLLECTION OF JIMMY WELDON May 16th 2017 (Click Lot title for more images and to Place Bid)

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Silver from the Collection of Jimmy Weldon

146 A SET OF SIX IRISH DOUBLE THREADED FIDDLE PATTERN DINNER FORKS,

Dublin 1835, mark of PWeeks, engraved with the Fitzgerald family crest of the Duke

of Leinster and motto “CromA Boo”, (c.637.6g). 20.5cm. (6)

€ 500 - 800

At this time,Augustus Frederick Fitzgerald was active as theThird Duke of Leinster.

Amongst other positions held,TheThird Duke was Grandmaster of the Grand Lodge

of Ireland, a post which he held from 1813 until his death in 1874. (See lot 1 for more

information on the Grand Lodge of Ireland.)

1835: First attempt to kill a sitting President of the United States,when Andrew Jackson is

attacked outside the United States Capitol Building.