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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mark of George Hodder, the plain ovoid body with central girdle and applied cast twin harp handles, raised on

circular spreading foot, (c.435.4g). 14cm high, 11cm diameter.

€ 2,500 - 3,500

George Hodder, Silversmith mentioned 1738; freeman 1746.‘whose grandfather was the first Protestant mayor

of this city’; mayor himself 1754-5; his wife died during his mayoralty, 17th February 1755; he died 1771. (Bow-

en and O’Brien, 2005 pp180-186)

1745:On the 19th of October - Jonathan Swift,satirist and Dean of St.Patrick’s Cathedral,Dublin,dies aged 78.His body

is laid out in public for the people of Dublin to pay their last respects,and he is buried,in accordance with his wishes,in his

cathedral by Esther Johnson’s side with his own epitaph:Ubi sæva Indignatio / Ulterius / Cor lacerare nequit (“where savage

indignation can no longer lacerate the heart”).