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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Tuesday 16 th M ay
mark of Michael McDermott, of shaped circular form, with raised shell and scrollwork border to a plain central reserve, raised on
three pad feet, (c.295g). 16.5cm diameter
€ 1,500 - 2,500
Michael McDermott, Goldsmith and Jeweller advertised 1756;‘Goldsmith and Jeweller from Dublin, keeps shop at the Sign of the
Naked Boy and Scales, opposite the SpinningWheel in the Main Street, Cork’; advertised as Goldsmith and Grocer 20th February
1769; a Catholic, he swore theTest Oath ofAllegiance 18th December 1775; died 8th February 1784. His wife predeceased him 6th
July 1770. He had four surviving sons and five daughters. (Bowen and O’Brien, 2005 pp180-186)
1765:The First Magdalene Asylum (for Protestant girls) in Ireland opens on Leeson Street in Dublin,founded by Lady Arabella Denny.