History, Literature & Collectables
Catalog Information: 568 lots | 503 with images | View lots
Date: November 13, 2010
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Viewing Notes:
10th - 12th November 10am to 6pm. 13th November 9.30am to 12 noon.
Lot 1: Ardagh Chalice - a silver replica by Goldsmiths and Silversmiths Company, London
Number 31 purchased by PRE Browne and presented as a wedding gift to Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne and his wife Annie on their Golden Wedding Anniversary, 9 February 1911.The original was an eighth to tenth century AD two-handled chalice of an elaborat [...more]
Lot 2: The Columba Chalice - Limited edition by Mason's Ironstone
Number 156 of an edition of 500, in its presentation box of issue, 1989, with wooden stand. Designed by AE Porter and Raymond Sheldon the illustrations are based on early Irish manuscripts including the Cathach of Columba and the book of Kells.
Lot 3: 1555 (22 January) Rare early document signed by James Fitzgerald, Earl of Desmond, concerning an adultery charge
"James Desmond" signature as Lord High Treasurer of Ireland, with those of Edmond, Deane of Cloyne and others giving verdict on a charge of adultery against Katherine, daughter of Alderman Dominick Roche of Cork, brought by her husband John Coppinger [...more]
Lot 4: 1631. Brutum Fulmen... The Bull of Pope Pius V Concerning Damnation, Excommunication and Deposition of Queen Elizabeth etc.
"And also the Absolution of her subjects from their Oath of Allegiance, with a Peremptory Injunction, upon pain of an Anathema, never to obey any of Her laws or commands" by Thomas Lord Bishop of Lincoln. With the Papal Bull of Pope Paul the Third an [...more]
Lot 5: 1655. A Cromwellian Soldier sells his grant of land in Ireland.
"J. Morris Fitzgerald late soldier in Coll. Henry Perkins own troops" selling his land to Robert Browne. The original grant was in 1651, witnessed by Humphrey Butler, Samuel Conaley and John Magher. With signature and seal of Maurice Fitzgerald.
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