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Lot 326
A Fine 17th Century Derbyshire Carved Oak Back Stool, Circa 1670. The two dome-topped back bars enriched with chip carving and having scalloped under-edging stamped with ornamental crosses. The uprights adorned with slit spindles and surmounted by voluted scroll finials. The plank seat in a raised frame on baluster turned legs united by a baluster, ball and reel turned front stretcher and plain rails to the sides and rear. 39½ ins (100 cms) high, 18 ins (46 cms) wide 15½ ins (39 cms) deep.*
Lot 348
A 19th Century Upholstered Boudoir Stool entirely covered in velvet (faded and worn). The square serpentine sided seat having a sprung central cushion and silk fringed edge, standing on cabriole legs united by an arched H-form stretcher with central finial enhanced with braid piping, 20 ins (50 cms) high, 17 ins (43 cms) square.*
Lot 382
A 17th Century English Joined Oak Form. The plank seat with moulded edge standing on splayed legs enriched with decorative turning and united by a long moulded central stretcher with turned connecting stretchers either end, terminating on turned feet, 21 ins (53 cms) high, 62 ins (158 cms) in length, 11½ ins (29 cms) wide.*
Lot 384
A 17th Century English Oak Wainscot Chair of fine colour & patination. The shaped cresting rail with foliate carving and lobe cut terminals above scrolling 'ear-piece' flanks. The back panel carved with a flowering plant; it's stylised foliage enriched with punch-work and defined against a recessed pitted ground framed by the run moulded uprights. The arms on reel turned supports. The planked seat with swab cushion standing on turned legs united peripheral stretchers, 43¼ ins (110 cms) high, 22 ins (56 cms) wide.*
Lot 386
A Late 17th Century Lancashire Joined Oak Settle of fine colour and patination. The top rail carved with two pairs of scrolling serpentine creatures issuing barbed tongues and tails; their chip carved bodies displayed against a recessed matted ground above two horizontal upper fielded panels and four vertical lower plain panels set in channel moulded framework. The silhouette cut scroll-end arms on cannon barrel turned posts leading own to a planked seat, above three similarly turned front legs and square rear stile legs united by peripheral stretchers, 47½ ins (121 cms) high, 54 ins (137 cms) wide, 21 ins (53 cms) deep.*
Lot 388
A 17th Century English Oak Wainscot Chair of fine colour & patination. The panel back gouge carved with a central rose emitting leafy spurs within a banded lozenge enriched with punch-work; the corners issuing fluttering pennants, the sides with foliate lunettes. The top rail carved with a chain of linked S-scrolls between plain uprights with pyramidal finials. The silhouette cut scroll-end arms on bobbin turned posts leading down to a plank seat on turned legs united by low peripheral stretchers, 41 ins (104 cms) high, 19¾ ins (50 cms) wide 23 ins (59 cms) deep.*
Lot 392
A Fine Derbyshire Oak Back-stool of rich colour & patination. The two crescent shaped back bars carved with voluted scrolls centred by bearded face masks and having scalloped upper edging and turned acorn pendant finials. The uprights with scroll carved lobe terminals and split spindle appliqués. The plank seat framed by rails raised on baluster turned legs united by a baluster & reel front stretcher with plain rails to the sides and rear, 41½ ins (105.5 cms) high, 18½ (47 cms) wide, 16 ins (41 cms) deep.*
Lot 394
A William & Mary High Back Caned Side Chair. The pierced back carved with undulating foliage bordered by moulding and flanked by elaborately turned uprights surmounted by turned acorn finials flanking a carved cresting rail. The seat on turned legs with briganza feet, connected by pierced foliate carved front rail and turned H-form stretcher.*
Lot 399
A Queen Anne Joined Oak Box Settle of rich colour & patination. The five panel back having a decorative carved top rail of undulating trails of tulips and foliage centred by incised initials IW and date 1708. The muntins with similar carving rising from roundel motifs. The silhouette cut scroll arms above panel sides with graduated ball turned posts to the front. The box seat with a long swab cushion concealing a hinged lid above a triple panel front terminating on ball feet, 45 ins (114 cms) in height, 72 ins (183 cms) in length.*
Lot 405
An Early 18th Century Joined Oak Settle of rich colour and patination. The back having a nulled top rail above two horizontal upper panels and four lower panels in a chamfered framework. The twin plank seat with arms either side, standing on six square legs with a moulded stretcher to the front, 38 ins (97 cms) in height, 68 ins (173 cms) wide.*
Lot 410
A 17th Century English Joined Oak Wainscot Chair. The cresting rail projecting out either side of the plain uprights framing a panel back carved with a central roundel encompassing a quatrefoil knot of wrythen whorls entwined in guilloche bands. The down swept arms on slender baluster turned posts. The edge moulded seat standing on rising baluster legs to the front and stile supports to the rear united by run moulded rails, 43½ ins (110 cms) high, 22 ins (56 cms) wide.*
Lot 414
A Late 17th Century English Joined Oak Back-stool attributed to South Yorkshire/Derbyshire, Circa 1670-1700. The arcaded back having turned spindles between channel moulded rails incised with punched with decoration, and surmounted by turned knop finials. The uprights enriched by baluster and bobbin turning. The planked seat in a raised frame to retain a swab cushion, standing on baluster turned legs united by plain stretchers, 39½ ins (100 cms) high, 18 ins (46 cms) wide, 16 ins (41 cms) deep.*
Lot 422
A Late 17th/Early 18th Century Lancashire Joined Oak Back Stool. The pierced top rails carved with upswept leaves curling around to meet the fanned centre motif, above a bands of 'barber's pole' inlay. The back panel gouge carved with a cruciform of leafy spurs framed in a lozenge with wrythen whorls to the corners. The plank seat on ball turned legs united by a ball & fillet front stretcher with plain rails to the sides and rear, 37 ins (94 cms) high, 19 ins (48 cms) wide.*
Lot 428
A Large & Impressive Late 17th/Early 18th Century Oak Gateleg Dining Table to seat 10-12 people. The thick oval top above a joined base with a drawer at one end standing on cannon barrel turned legs united by bold moulded stretchers, 29½ ins (75 cms) high, 72 ins x 70 ins (183 cm x 178 cms).
Lot 435
A Splendid 17th Century English Oak Wainscot Chair of rich colour & patination. The deep, shaped top rail lavishly carved with voluted scrolls embellished with punchwork and having coiled lobe terminals crested with small carved leaves. The panelled back incised with the initials GH to the upper horizontal panel above a principal panel emblazoned with a lozenge design emitting scrolling pennants. The chip carved framework flanked by scrolling 'ear-pieces'. The arms on reel turned posts leading down to a planked seat on cannon barrel legs united by peripheral stretchers, 45 ins (115 cms) high, 23 ins (59 cms) wide.*
Lot 46
An Ash Spindle-backed Rush-seat Armchair attributed to North West England, Circa 1800. The back having three rows of turned spindles between round turned uprights. The swept arms on baluster turned posts (one cracked) leading down to a rush seat edged in protective wooden strips, and raised on turned legs with stretchers. 41 ins (104 cms) high, 23 ins (58 cms) wide.*
Lot 51
A Fine 18th Century English Joined Oak Settle, Circa 1720, of glowing mid brown colour and patination. The back having a moulded top rail above four fielded ogee-topped panels. The silhouette cut plank arms spliced into turned posts leading down to a planked seat with two swab cushions above a serpentine edged seat rail. The cabriole legs terminating on pad feet, 43½ ins (110 cms) high, 58 ins (148 cms) wide, 27 ins (69 cms) deep.*
Lot 53
A Fine Late 18th/Early 19th Century Lancashire Wavy Ladder-back Winged Armchair with rush seat. The bowed back composed of six graduated rungs between turned uprights with nipple finials, projecting spindled wings either side. The swept arms on baluster posts leading down to short baluster turned legs on pad & squat bun feet united by a twinned baluster front stretcher and plain turned stretchers to the sides and rear. 41 ins (104 cms) high, 21¼ ins (54 cms) wide, 46 ins (117 cms) deep.*
Lot 58
A Mid 17th Century English Joined Oak Wainscot Chair of restrained Puritan design. The plain back panel in a moulded frame below a channel moulded top rail. The thick silhouette cut plank arms on bold columnar posts leading down to a plank seat above run moulded rails on turned legs united by peripheral stretchers, 36 ins (91 cms), 22½ ins (57 cms) in width.*
Lot 62
A Queen Anne Style Upholstered High Backed Side Chair. The tall hump topped back and sprung seat covered in a floral tapestry fabric edged in braid and standing on well swept cabriole legs with pad feet, united by a wavy H-form stretcher with turned cross-bar, 51 ins (130 cms) high, 21 ins (53 cms) wide.*
Lot 63
A Fine George II Style Carved Mahogany Settee, upholstered in needlework tapestry. The rectangular back depicting a central landscape with two female figures resting beside a fountain, one with a gentleman bathing her feet. The long seat and outswept C-scrolling arms woven with undulating foliage. Standing on three front cabriole legs enriched with ornamental scrolls & foliage descending to scroll knop feet, with raked-back rear legs. 38 ins (96½ cms) high, 63 ins (160 cms) wide, 30 ins (76 cms) deep.
Lot 67
A George II Upholstered Walnut Armchair. The high winged back, out-swept scroll arms, bow-front seat and swab cushion covered in old golden/salmon pink damask. Standing on walnut cabriole legs with carved shell motifs to the knees, a turned H-form stretcher and pad foot terminals raised on castors, 48 ins (122 cms) high, 33 ins (84 cms) wide.
Lot 69
A Fine Early 18th Century Carved Walnut Armchair, Circa 1700. The high pierced back elaborately carved and surmounted by a fan of crested acanthus. The moulded out-swept arms enriched with further acanthus sprays to the scrolled terminals. The upholstered seat covered in cut crimson plush fabric edged in brass studs and standing on swept foliate carved legs united by a moulded wavy X-frame stretcher with a reeded finial to the centre. 58 ins (148 cms) high, 27 ins (69 cms) in width.
Lot 84
A Fine Mid 17th Century Joined Oak Caqueteuse Armchair of good, rich colour and patination. The domed broken-arch cresting rail having a moulded edge and boldly carved initials K H centred by a small whorled boss raised against a recessed ground. The back panel ornamented with a row of moulded reeds below branded ownership initials AB. The flat swept arms pierced through by the tenons of the baluster arm posts, leading down to a splayed seat on turned legs united by low peripheral stretchers, 42 ins (107 cms) high, 26½ ins (67 cms) wide.*
Lot 99
An Impressive 17th Century Joined Oak Form (believed to have originated from another Derbyshire Hall before being installed in Padley). The long plank seat pierced through with twin tenons of the three bold baluster turned legs on sledge feet, 22 ins (56 cms) in height, 122 ins (310 cms) in length.*
Lot 187
Dan Breen, The Politician for Tipperary Breen (Dan) 1894 - 1969. A good A.L.s from Mountjoy Gaol, 12.8.23, on the regular lined prison paper, 1pp, to 'Alcie' (probably a relative). 'I see by the papers that I am selected as [Republican] candidate for Tipperary. I don't fancy the job in the least but I have no option but go, so I must make the best of it.' He asks her to arrange nomination of the Republican candidates, and suggests some local business people who may be prepared to act as nominators. As a m/ss., w.a.f. (1) * Dan Breen was present at the action at Soloheadbeg, January 1919, which marked the start of the War of Independence, and had a British bounty of £10,000 on his head at one point. He opposed the Treaty, but took part in efforts to avoid a Civil War. He was elected to the Dail while a prisoner in Mountjoy, and was released after a series of hunger strikes. He was the first Republican to take his seat in Dail Eireann, later joined Fianna Fail, and was a T.D. for than 30 years. SEE LOTS 76 & 77.
![Irish National Aid & Volunteers Dependent's Fund
[Collins (Michael)] A Collection Book for Irish National Aid and Volunteers](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0a2353a1-4706-4340-b8b0-a5de00fcff57/828adb00-9604-4616-f26b-5e18eaa659d9/468x382.jpg)
Lot 338
Irish National Aid & Volunteers Dependent's Fund [Collins (Michael)] A Collection Book for Irish National Aid and Volunteers Dependents Fund Issued to Miss May Joyce of Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford, 21st Sept. 1917, Signed by Michael Collins as Secretary (undoubtedly his signature), and with 4pp listing donations from named contributors. Laid in are a receipt for five shillings signed by Siobhan Bean an Phoraigh [Jennie Wyse Power] dated 3.5.18, and three various signed notes, one dated 27 Sept. 1917, saying 'It is very sad about poor Ashe, another (3.5.1917) saying 'I am very glad that things are going on so well for Mc Guinness' [a prisoner candidate for Westminster seat]. In fine condition. As a m/ss, w.a.f. (1) * Michael Collins was arrested after the G.P.O. surrender in 1916 and sent to Frongoch. Soon after his release with other detainees, Tom Clarke's widow Kathleen chose him to be Secretary of the Volunteers Dependents' Fund which she had established on Clarke's instructions - an ideal position for Collins, which enabled him to reorganise what remained of the I.R.B. Documents linking him to the Fund are surprisingly scarce.
Lot 537
EASTER 1916, HARRY CLARKE, AND CARAVAGGIO THE LEA-WILSON COLLECTION A Collection of Personal Belongings, letters, photographs and other memorabilia of Captain Percival Lea-Wilson, RIC (1887-1920) and his wife Dr Marie (Monica) Lea-Wilson, née Ryan (1887-1971). Includes his RIC helmet and a magnificent illuminated address by Guy's of Cork. Captain Lea-Wilson makes a mercifully brief appearance in the narrative of Easter 1916: In the aftermath of the Rising, apparently drunk and out of control, he abused and humiliated Republican prisoners in his charge at the Rotunda Gardens. Four years later, in retaliation for this spiteful behaviour, he was shot dead on the orders of Michael Collins. But there was much more than this to the Lea-Wilson story. Percival ("Val") Lea-Wilson was born at Brompton, Kensington, in 1887, of upper middle-class English Protestant stock. His father, a stockbroker, was killed in a carriage accident when he was only seven; his mother, a sister of the architect Charles Fitzroy Doll (designer of the dining-room of the Titanic), remarried in 1912. An ancestor, Samuel Wilson, had been Lord Mayor of London in 1838/9 and the family home was Village Place in Beckenham. "Val" was educated at Winchester College - a leading public school noted for its solid grounding in the Classics and the spartan lifestyle of its inmates - and New College, Oxford, where he graduated in 1909. In 1910 he enrolled as a cadet in the Royal Irish Constabulary, and in 1911 was appointed a District Inspector; he served successively at Charleville, Co. Cork, Woodford, Co. Galway, and Dunshaughlin, Co. Meath. While in Charleville he fell in love with Marie Monique Eugenie ("Monica") Ryan, the daughter of a local (Catholic) solicitor, Patrick Ryan of "The Turrets". On being posted to Dunshaughlin he wrote her a series of letters expressing his undying love, regretting the hostility of her father, and grumbling about his job. The following - written from the Fingall Arms Hotel on 13 October 1913 - is typical: This place is horrid, dirty, miserable. …… I am very worried about you. Your loving Val. The Collection includes: · Lithograph of "Village Place the seat of Samuel Wilson Esq., Alderman of the City of London", from a drawing by T.J. Rawlins, 1838 · Photographs and other memorabilia of Lea-Wilson's years at Winchester and Oxford · Illuminated address by Guy's of Cork congratulating Lea-Wilson on his marriage and signed by the rector and RC curate of Charleville, praising "your strict impartiality towards all creeds and classes, your sympathetic manner in the discharge of your duties, and your courage and tact in the presence of difficulties." · Letters from "Val" Lea-Wilson to Monica in 1913, prior to their marriage, mostly from Dunshaughlin, and from France in 1917. · Snapshots of central Dublin immediately after the Easter Rising · Photographs (some framed) of Lea-Wilson's funeral · Mounted photo of Lea-Wilson with illuminated border and text of funeral oration, recalling "his abounding overflowing vitality, his infectious gaiety, his unfailing kindliness, his openhanded generosity, his large-hearted tolerance, his cheery and unflinching courage," and denouncing his death "at the hands of a gang of cowardly assassins; a murder most foul; as foul as any of those dastardly crimes which of late have brought black dishonour upon our land." · RIC helmet in original tin container bearing his name · Some letters re Harry Clarke's window in Gorey commemorating Lea-Wilson · 5 receipts for moneys paid by Mrs Lea-Wilson, Westmount, Gorey, to James Hicks, cabinet manufacturer, collector and restorer, Dublin, 19 June 1922 to July 1924, includes "1 large oil painting (Betrayal of Christ) £20.0.0." · Several letters to Dr Monica Lea-Wilson from Dr McQuaid, President of Blackrock, mostly 1938-39, and one from Marie McQuaid thanking Monica for the kindness shown to her while they were in France; also several photos of Monica with Dr McQuaid and his sisters. · Letters to Monica from W. Sullivan 1922-28, her sister Adeline (wife of Lord Muskerry), and others · Letters to Monica Lea-Wilson in later life re her medical work, employees, students whose post-primary education she had funded, etc. · Documents re an aunt of Monica's who had gone to Russia as governess and apparently gone missing during the Revolution; includes letters from Cecil Harmsworth (Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs) to Captain W.A. Redmond, and Charlotte Knollys, Private Secretary to the Queen Mother. · Musical score, with illustrated title page, of "The Fireman's Polka" by Charles S. Macdona, with illustrated title page depicting a horse-drawn fire engine thundering past the statue of Daniel O'Connell and onto O'Connell Bridge. "Dedicated to Captain Boyle, Fire Brigade, Dublin" (Boyle died in 1898). · A large number of letters and postcards sent to Monica, many in French from the art historian Paul Biver, on religious topics ** FOR FULL DESCRIPTION SEE PDF ON WEBSITE OR CONTACT OUR OFFICE
Lot 540
THE 1916 PROCLAMATION: THE GPO COPY POBLACHT NA H EIREANN. The Provisional Government of the IRISH REPUBLIC to the PEOPLE OF IRELAND. Irishmen and Irishwomen .. An original copy of the Proclamation of the Irish Republic, believed to be the copy which hung in the General Post Office in Dublin during the 1916 Rising, with guaranteed provenance to Dr. James Ryan, Medical Officer to the GPO Garrison, later a Fianna Fail Minister. (1) Dimensions: 30 ins x 20 ¼ ins, length of line 18 3/8 ins, as required, with the various typographical peculiarities identified by Bouch, evidently printed in two portions, the lower portion slightly at an angle. On the usual greyish paper, with two central oval holes in the paper, 2 ins x 1 in and 1 ½ in x 1 in approx, a third smaller hole upper left, missing segments of type supplied in manuscript. These holes appear consistent with the document being fixed to a wall or surface and pulled away. Frayed at top with minor loss to the first line of type, vertical and horizontal folds with some fraying and partial loss to a few letters, otherwise generally a good copy of this rare and fragile document. Provenance: Given by Dr. James Ryan to his brothers' family home, in Wexford, and understood by family tradition to be a copy which Dr. Ryan removed from the GPO during or immediately before its evacuation in 1916; later sold privately by Michael Ryan (nephew of Dr. James Ryan) to the present vendor in a transaction facilitated and administered by Fonsie Mealy, Auctioneer. We are thus in a position to guarantee this provenance, for which there is documentary evidence in our possession (which we can discuss with intending purchasers on a confidential basis if desired). As is now well known, the Proclamation was printed in Liberty Hall on Sunday 23 April 1916 by printers appointed by James Connolly, under an armed guard of the Irish Citizen Army. Because of a shortage of type, it was necessary to compose the document in two portions and to print it in two passes, with each sheet passing through the machine twice. The gap between the two sections (after 'among the nations') varies slightly from one copy to another. The print order was 2,500 copies, but the vast majority of these appear to have perished in the fires and bombardments of Easter Week. Our best estimate is that up to 50 original copies now survive, mostly in institutional collections from which they are unlikely to emerge. A very few copies are personally linked to participants in the Rising - one signed by Sean T. O'Kelly, now in Leinster House, and one or two more - but this may be the only copy which can be identified with reasonable probability as being in the GPO itself throughout the week of the Rising. James Ryan (1891 - 1970), from Taghmon in Co. Wexford, was a final year medical student in 1916 and a member of the Irish Volunteers. He was appointed medical officer to the GPO garrison, and in that capacity he assisted in carrying the wounded James Connolly from the burning building. Before doing so it appears that he removed the present document from its place in the GPO, folded it quickly and stuffed it in a pocket or in his shirt. After the Rising he was arrested and interned in England and Wales, but was released in time to sit his final medical examinations in 1917. In the 1918 United Kingdom general election he was elected Sinn Fein MP for Wexford South, sat in the First Dail, and later became Dail TD for Wexford, holding his seat for 47 years. A close colleague of Eamon De Valera, he opposed the Treaty, joined Fianna Fail on its foundation, and held senior Ministerial posts including Agriculture (1932-47) and Finance (1957-65). He died in 1970. His papers are mostly in UCD and the National Library. A very desirable copy of this rare document.
![Constance Gore Booth, The Artist
[Markievicz (Ld. Constance)] A printed Admission Card from University College, London addre](https://cdn.globalauctionplatform.com/0a2353a1-4706-4340-b8b0-a5de00fcff57/b1821adb-065e-43e7-ae90-335c4ac0d32f/468x382.jpg)
Lot 549
Constance Gore Booth, The Artist [Markievicz (Ld. Constance)] A printed Admission Card from University College, London addressed to Miss Constance Gore Booth to the Class of Fine Art, 1st Term Session 1893 - 94, and signed by the professor. (1) * Countess Markievicz, revolutionary of Anglo-Irish stock wishing to become a painter she joined the Slade School in 1893 in London, studied in Paris from 1898 to 1900 where she met her future husband, Count Casimir Duncan - Markievicz. She became an accomplished artist but in 1908 she entered Nationalist politics, joining Sinn Fein and Inghinide na h'Eireann with Maud Gonne. In 1909 she founded Na Fianna. She was involved in the 1916 Rebellion and imprisoned. Afterwards became the first woman ever elected to the British Parliament, but refused to take her seat. She died in 1927 aged 59 years.
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