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A Charming Record of an Irish Peer's Babyhood [The O'Briens of Dromoland]Baby's Souvenir, by A.O. Kaplan, with pictures by Frances Brundage, London, Dean & Son, n.d. blue and crimson cover with gold tooling and illustration. Many illustrations in text. "The Book Contains a Biographical Record of the Child-Life of [Donough E.F. O'Brien]. born at 16 Grosvenor Square 6 January 1897 to Lucius and Ethel O'Brien. With m/ss notes by mother on his earliest experiences to the end of 1899: lock of hair (enclosed), first laugh, first tooth, first steps etc. Many photographs and a few letters loose or pasted in. Donough Edward Foster O'Brien, the baby commemorated so lovingly in this book, was the first of six children born to the Hon. Lucius O'Brien (who in 1900 became the 15th Baron Inchiquin) and Ethel Jane Foster. He served in the Rifle Brigade during the First World War, and married in 1921 Anne Molyneux Thesiger. In 1939 he succeeded his father as 16th Baron Inchiquin and settled at the ancestral seat of Dromoland Castle. For twenty years he struggled to keep the estate afloat, but in 1962 financial circumstances forced him to sell castle and estate. he died in 1968. Frances Isabelle Lockwood Brundage (1854-1937) was an American illustrator best known for her depictions of attractive and endearing children, both for ephemera such as postcards and calendars and for the novels of Louisa May Alcott and others. She was a prolific artist, producing in her late sixties as many as twenty books annually. As an Album, w.a.f. (1)
Fianna Eireann: [Markievicz (Countess)] Fianna Handbook Issued by the Central Council of Na Fianna Eireann for the Boy Scouts of Ireland. 8vo D. n.d. [1914]. First Edn. 180pp including illus. by Countess Markievicz & others, adverts etc. Orig. pict. wrappers. (1) * A training manual for the Fianna - the Irish Volunteers junior movement under its President Countess Markievicz. It includes drill, rifle exercises, signalling etc. V. Scarce.
Postcards, Military, a selection of 13 cards published by Stewart & Woolf from various series and all illustrated by Harry Payne. Regiments include Field Officer Rifle Brigade (series 506), Staff Corporal Farrier 1st Life Guards (series 505), Scout 18th Hussars (series 505) etc (mixed condition)
Photographs, 28 b/w photographs, assorted sizes dating from circa 1880 - 1930s to include Essex Regt. Shooting Team Bangalore, Royal Military Academy Woolwich Hockey Team circa 1897, No. 2 Btn Dorset's Rifle Champion Team North Western Frontier India 1934, 2nd Btn. West Yorkshire Regt., Sir George White VC and staff, injured soldiers wearing hospital blues fundraising in Hythe in 1918, Troops in Mesopotamia, Maritzburg Home Guard Rifles, Adelina Genee (ballet dancer), Margaret Morris Dancers, Oscar Wilde (commercially produced card mounted). Exceptional lot. (gd) (28)
British Crimean War Brown Bess Percussion Cap Musket with an Indian conversion from flintlock, this was done to keep the rifle in service after the flintlock mechanism had become obsolete. The barrel having a steel piece added to hold the ramrod and the stock shortened. Markings are too feint to read but an interesting conversion which would make an excellent restoration piece.
A YELLOW METAL MILITARY BROOCH, in the form of a rifle and the Royal Engineers emblem, fitted with a brooch pin, stamped '9ct gold', length 50mm, approximate gross weight 2.2 grams (condition report: some discolouration to the reverse of the brooch, brooch pin in working order, general light wear, overall condition good)
A BSA Super Sport .22 calibre break-action Air Rifle with fitted sound moderator and Hawke Sport HD 4 x 32 cross-hair type telescopic sight, serial no. DS75937. (Some surface rust but appears to function normally and appears to have a strong spring. A rubber butt pad is fitted), 38 1/4'' long overall, weight 3235 gms approx.
A Collection of First World War Bruce Bairnsfather Pottery by Grimwades, comprising a jardiniere, a salad bowl and five wall plates all printed with comic scenes in sepia on a shaded cream field, four pottery caricature jugs and a Carlton China figure "Yours to a Cinder Old Bill"; also, a Royal Doulton figure jug of Winston Churchill, two Bovey Pottery figures of Winston Churchill and a Royal Doulton character mask jug of Monty D6202 (16)Condition report: Jardiniere with star crack to base and crazing to the glaze, other items of Grimwades are undamaged, but have crazing to the glaze. Carlton China figure has a restored rifle. Remaining items undamaged.
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