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 Collins Brehon, of circular form, the fluted body with wavy rim and raised on three shell capped hoof feet,

(c.186.6g). 12.5cm diameter

€ 8,000 - 12,000

Collins Brehon, goldsmith, was granted the freedom of Limerick, 7 May 1747. He advertised in the

Munster Journal of 30 September 1765 and 31 March 1766 claiming that his shop ‘At theTwo Blue

Posts, opposite the Exchange, Limerick’ had been‘enlarged in a spacious Manner, in order to carry on

theWatch-making and mending business, together with the Goldsmith’sTrade’. Collins died on 29 June

1768 and was buried in St. Mary’s. On 11 August 1768 Elizabeth, his widow, advertised in the Limerick

Chronicle that ‘she is selling by lottery her stock of watches, touched plate and jewellery in order to pay

her husband’s creditors and she humbly hopes that the humane gentlemen and ladies of this City will

favour her their protection and encouragement’. She died in July 1810, aged 92. (Bowen and O’Brien,

2007 p190)