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Lot 388
UNUSUAL BRONZE CLOCK BAROMETER AND THERMOMETER CASE ONLY, IN THE FORM OF A LIGHTHOUSE, in three sections with conical roof, mainly body with circular apertures to receive clock and barometer, base with foliate scroll guard rail and small opening door to operated pendulum, 16" (40.6cm) high overall
Lot 503
LATE NINETEENTH CENTURY `POLYPHON` DISC MUSICAL BOX, HAVING WORKING COIN OPERATED MECHANISM, playing 19 5/8" (49.8cm) diameter, disks on two vertically mounted combs enclosed by ebonised, walnutwood and figured walnutwood cabinet with hinged, milestone glazed panel door, the cornice inscribed `Polyphon` standing on base with hopper fronted disk storage compartment containing supply of 15 disks, mechanism winding handle and supply of pre-decimal copper pennies, the whole 5`8" (174cm) high
Lot 281
GOOD W. WATSON & SONS, LONDON, LATE 19th CENTURY MAHOGANY AND LACQUERED BRASS MAGIC LANTERN, the front brass plate inscribed W. Watson & Sons, 313 High Holborn, London, No 1379, having 8" lens with rack and pinion focusing and fitted with mahogany sliding plate holder, the body hinged to allow adjustment of inclination, having side and rear opening door to access the now electrified light source, blued metal chimney, 18 3/4" (47.6cm) long lens closed down
Lot 558
Heaney, Seamus. Door Into The Dark signed first edition Faber & Faber, London, 1969. First edition second printing. Signed and dated on the title page by Heaney 12 May 1972. Together with loosely inserted ticket to The Omagh Players presentation of The Hard Road An Entertainment in Words and Music with Seamus Heaney, David Hammond, Tony McAuley"", which took place on the day prior to Heaney signing this example
Lot 234A
1916 Rising: an eyewitness account by a Unionist in the leafy suburb of Ballsbridge and his fascinating archive 1878-1920 The diaries, complete 1878-1920, and some correspondence to his daughter and related letters of Sir Alfred Irwin, Companion of the Star of India. The diaries relate at first to his service in India, and then to his retirement in Dublin. Overall this is a primary source for research into an Anglo-Irish servant of the British Empire and his attitude to the world around him. His handwritten letter of 25 April to 4th May 1916 (pp44) starts At 4.20 yesterday afternoon Aunt Emily telephoned that the Sinn Feiners had risen & were shooting in Dublin. They missed Uncle Charlie by an inch & she was not sure if that particular shot was fired by Countess Markievitch [sic], but at any rate the Countess was in the thick of it....The rebels had got the G.P.O.... 3 policemen and 2 children were killed... the Sinn Feiners took some milk from [the milkboy]"". He then goes on to give his account of the Rising through his own experiences and those of ""Aunt Emily"", the servants in his house, the messenger boys, jarveys and others who visit him. A fascinating and sometimes amusing account by a ""Colonel Blimp"" type of character, well worthy of publication. A postcard dated 2 May 1916 gives a very brief account, while later letters refer to people seeking shelter and food ""probably looted"" being sold door to door. There are 30 letters, pp2 to 6pp each, to his daughter, Dorothy, in India, also letters from his son, Alfred, who commanded a battalion of the East Surrey regiment in World War I and in 1919 on the abortive British support of the white Russians in Murmansk, including a detailed letter on the latter adventure. There are also letters from Kathleen, another daughter. Sir Alfred Irwin (1853-1920) was the son of the Archdeacon of Elphin, educated at Kingstown School, entered the Indian Civil Service in 1876. in the Punjab, later transferring to Burma and rose to be Active Chief Judge of Burma by 1908, retiring in 1909 to Dublin. He was married to Alice Kathleen French, daughter of Christopher French. His son Alfred was awarded the DSO with two bars. His daughters were Dorothy and Kathleen. (30 letters and 41 Lett`s Diaries).
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