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 baluster form with moulded rim,‘s’ scroll handle, the body engraved with a coat of arms and inscribed “The Gift of the

Corporation of Shoemakers,Tobias Lewis Master 1725”, raised on stepped circular foot, (c.855g). 21cm high

TheAncient and Loyal Corporation of Shoemakers of Dublin, was the eighth in order of precedence among that city’s 25

minor corporations or guilds.They were also know as Guild of the BlessedVirgin Mary, after their patron saint.The Church

of St. Michael theArchangel, situated at the corner of Christ Church Lane andAudeon’s arch was used by the Guild of Shoe-

makers, who resided in the area. In Dublin as in other cities in Ireland and Great Britain, trades and crafts were organised and

freedom of the city meant membership in some of the numerous guilds.Apprenticeship in guilds was a strictly controlled as it

constituted a high honour to gain membership. Policies of protectionism were in place, with prohibitions against buying outside

of Dublin, to control the production of articles made by men of different faculties within the city itself. Equally the guild

themselves had a certain degree of monopoly over the industry in relation to pricing.The guilds set the standards for the trade

by determining who would become masters.

€ 5,000 - 8,000

1724:On April 1st 1724 Jonathan Swift publishes Drapier’s Letters