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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of pierced navette form, the plain hinged top inscribed “SS

Michael & Johns Church”“I.H.S”, raised on engraved oval

spreading foot, with metal liner, (c.202g all in). 10cm high,

13.5cm wide

Provenance:The Collection of the LateTony Sweeney

€ 100 - 200

mark of Hoyland & Co., with interlink swing handle and bead-

ed wavy rim above a pierced and leafy body, raised on beaded

and acanthus bordered foot, with shaped blue glass liner, (the

frame c.153g). 14.5cm high to top of handle

€ 200 - 300

1777:The US Congress adopts a new flag for independent America –

the stars and stripes.

No maker, London, dated the first year in which the city

hallmarks included the king’s head. It was originally a sugar

boat in the Adam style but, fitted with a lead liner for its

subsequent use, was presumably presented by a Dublin

merchant when the Church of Saint Michael and Saint

John was built in 1793.This was the proud possessor of the

first Catholic Church bell to be heard in the city since the

relaxation of the Penal Laws and had been erected in Essex

StreetWest on the site of the Smock AlleyTheatre, part of

which was incorporated in the structure. In recent years

with the decline in the parish population, it has taken on a

new existance as a museum.

1784:The US RevolutionaryWar ends with the US Congress of the

Confederation ratifying theTreaty of Paris.