19 May 2015 - Rare Book Sale

#0234

Lot 538/0234

SOLD Hammer price €85

Postcards: Irish interest many of Co. Wicklow, include 3 cards depicting The Floods at Little Bray, 1905., approx. 110 cards in all, and a few envelopes, with scarce postal markings. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 539/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Postcards: An Album of approx. 200 cards, mostly Continental, also some military, ‘Guerre 1914’ ‘L’Armee des Indes,’ other French interest, & Italy, some real photos, as a lot, w.a.f. (1)
Provenance: de’Montmorency, Burnchurch House; Castle Morres, Co. Kilkenny.

Lot 540/0234

SOLD Hammer price €2800

Very Important & Large Collection of Irish Political & Republican Postcards

Postcards: A large Album containing approx. 154 mostly unused Postcards, consisting of approx. 74 portraits of The Signatories of The Proclamation, Leaders, Casualties of the Rebellion and later, some real photos, and some very rare, Kevin Barry, Jos. Wafer, Patrick Mc Donagh, 3rd Tipp. Brigade, D. Lynch, John Devoy, Lt. Thomas Allen, Michael Collins, Sean Hartley, Tadhg O’Sullivan, Sean Costello, Peter Clancy, Grace Gifford, James Mallin, Capt. T. Hunter, John O’Reilly, J. Medlar, Jer. O’Donovan Rossa, and a few earlier cards, also approx. 50 cards of Destruction in Dublin 1916, 6 cards of Military Operations in 1922, and a few others. All in fine condition, in a contemporary folio Album, three to a page. As a coll., w.a.f. (1)
***PLEASE NOTE THIS LOT SHOULD READ: 135 POSTCARDS NOT 154.

Lot 541/0234

SOLD Hammer price €45

Photographs: A 4to album containing approx. 85 mostly large photos, some cold., all c. 1890 / 1900, some of Cork, & Kerry, many of England, a few French, all very good, placed loosely in an Album. As a coll., w.a.f. Good. (1)

Lot 542/0234

SOLD Hammer price €95

Postcards: International Boxers, over 76 real photos, issued by Boxing News, also a few post cards of Limerick interest, as an album, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 543/0234

SOLD Hammer price €75

Postcards: Irish interest, principally Dublin City & County, including a few of Guinness Brewery, some Cork, Belfast also, over 110 cards, some real photos. As a lot, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 544/0234

SOLD Hammer price €550

Stamps: The Imperial Postage Stamp Album (1929) A large collection of early British Empire Stamps on about 900 pages from 1840 – 1929 issues, with some listed in pencil with sterling prices from Stanley Gibbon 2007. Also some World Stamps, full covers and many loose stamps, cloth. as a coll. of stamps, w.a.f. (1)
N.B. 900 pages from 1840 – 1929

Lot 545/0234

SOLD Hammer price €320

Currency: Bank Notes: Irish [Banc Ceanna’s na hEireann], a group of twelve £10 pound Bank Notes, from 1942 (War Issue – F.), 1957, 1962, 1964, 1965 (5) & 1968 (3), as a collection, w.a.f. (12)

Lot 546/0234

SOLD Hammer price €220

Atlantic Telegraph: Two original brass and mahogany “Coders,” a fac-simile copy of “The Atlantic Telegraph” by W.H. Russell. As a coll., w.a.f. (3)

Lot 547/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Horses etc: Sewell’s, Auctions. Grand Annual Auctions, Attendant on Punchestown Races…. To be Sold by Auction at Sewell’s Horse Repository on Monday & Friday, 12th & 16th April, 1875.. The Following Valuable Studs of Hunters, etc., etc., An Auction Catalogue of 16pp., listing horse names, & owners. A very interesting lot. (1)

Lot 548/0234

SOLD Hammer price €55

Greyhound Racing: Co. Kilkenny, a collection of approx. 25 Race Cards from St. James Park, Kilkenny, The Ossory Cup, Mc Calmont Cup & others from 1946 – 1980’s, together with some photographs & ephemera, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 549/0234

SOLD Hammer price €35

Race Card: Co. Cork: Dawstown Point – to – Point Races, on Saturday 29th March, 1852, at Dawstown, Blarney. A 4pp. card printed by Shandon Printing Works Ltd. Scarce. (1)

Lot 550/0234

SOLD Hammer price €100

Irish Race & Hunt Cards – [Westmeath & Meath] 1914-59, a group of eight Race and Hunt Cards for (a) Westmeath Harriers (Point to Point Multifarnham) 1914; (b) Westmeath (P to P.) at Ardivahan 1926; (c) Westmeath (P. to P.) at Ardivahan 1928; (d) Westmeath (P. to P.) at Ardivahan, 1930; (e) Meath Hunt at Dalystown, 1931, (f) Ballymacad Hunt (P to P) at Mooretown, 1937; (g) County Meath Agri Soc. Jumping Competitions at Navan, 1937; (h) Bellewstown, Steeplechases, Hurdle & Flat, 1959, as a group of cards, ptd. wrappers, w.a.f. (8)

Lot 551/0234

SOLD Hammer price €180

Horse Racing: Point to Point (Irish) & Hunt, a collection of approx. 35 Race Cards from Kilmogany Harriers, Kilkenny Hunt, Mount Loftus Harriers, Ballinamona, Freshford etc, from 1943 – 1963, some with m/ss notes, worn, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 552/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Horse Racing: Co. Tipperary (Clonmel) Powerstown Park Races, a collection of approx. 18 Race Cards from 1944 – 1966, some with m/ss notes / results, worn; together with Thurles Races, a collection of approx. 21 Race Cards from 1949 – 1967, some with m/ss notes / results, worn, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 553/0234

SOLD Hammer price €110

Horse Racing: Co. Kildare, Punchestown, & Curragh Races, a collection of approx. 25 Race Cards from 1947 – 1966, some with m/ss notes / results, worn, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 554/0234

SOLD Hammer price €80

Horse Racing: Waterford & Tramore Races, a collection of approx. 25 Race Cards from 1945 – 1966, some with m/ss notes, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 555/0234

SOLD Hammer price €150

Horse Racing: Point to Point, a collection of approx. 25 Race Cards for Laytown, Phoenix Park, Leopardstown, Limerick Junction, Carlow Hunt, Cullohill, Queens Co. Hunt, some with m/ss notes, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 556/0234

SOLD Hammer price €80

Horse Racing: Co. Dublin (Baldoyle) Metropolitan Race Company Ltd., a collection of approx. 9 Race Cards, from 1951 – 1960, some with m/ss notes / results, worn, as a collection, w.a.f. (1)

Lot 557/0234

SOLD Hammer price €1100

“The Race that Never Was”

Horse Racing: Aintree; Official Race-Card, “The Martell Grand National, Aintree, Saturday April 3rd, 1993”, 8vo, 52pps, illus. & adverts throughout, illus. wrappers, [Signed by All Fifty Jockeys of the Grand National] Unusual & Scarce, possibly the only one extant.

This Race is remembered for being the first time that this world-famous steeplechase was declared void, after 30 of the 39 runners began and carried on racing despite a false start that was declared.
Seven of the field eventually went on to complete the course, with “Esha Ness” ultimately crossing the finishing post first, ironically in the second-fastest time in Grand National history.
As a result of this calamity, The Jockey Club made the decision not to re-run the race, and it has since been called The Race that Never Was. Bookmakers were forced to refund an estimated £75 million in bets staked. The Jockey Club launched an inquiry which led to a number of changes in the starting and recall procedures for future races.