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Silver from the Collection of Jimmy Weldon

82 AN IMPOSING EDWARDIAN OVOID SHAPED URN AND COVER, BIRMINGHAM 1908,

mark of Goldsmiths & Silversmiths Co. Ltd., with mannerist decoration, the lid with tall fruiting cresting, the body in panels

flanked by caryatid handles, on foliate knopped stem raised on acanthus banded base, (c.2255g). 49cm high

€ 2,000 - 3,000

1908:On September 8th 1908,Padraic Pearse opens Scoil Eanna (St Enda’s) school for boys at Cullenswood House,Ranelagh.It would later be

moved to Hermitage,Rathfarnham.