COLLECTIBLES CORNER Banknotes, Coins & Medals, Ephemera, Postcards, Cigarette Cards Stamps and Postal History, Sports
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COLLECTIBLES CORNER Banknotes, Coins & Medals, Ephemera, Postcards, Cigarette Cards Stamps and Postal History, Sports. “FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED” LIST 101 July/August 2019 150 273 302 Collectibles Corner 5-7 Upper O’Connell St (2nd Floor), Dublin 1, Ireland Ph 086 8573270, Email [email protected] web: www.collectiblescorner.net Collectibles Corner First Come First Served List 99 May 2019 Item Price€ Dear Collector Another First Come First Served list of collectibles for immediate sale, with a mixed range of items on offer for your perusal. As usual these are offered “first come, first served”. If you wish to order please do so without delay as many items sell in the first few days. It’s best to email [email protected] or phone 086 8573270 (00353 86 8573270 from UK). If you’d prefer just to receive email notification when list is ready please let me know. (Emails usually go out the evening before catalogues arrive by post, so there’s a slight advantage) PLEASE NOTE: There is now a handling charge of €2 on each item purchased. Because most people order by email or phone I have not included an order form with this list. If you do prefer to send a written order please send details on a plain sheet of paper but bear in mind that many items sell in the first 48 hours. The complete listing with colour pictures can be viewed at www.collectiblescorner.net Regards Peter Geoffroy BANKNOTES 1 Central Bank Lavery One Pound 25-10-55, about vf. Few light vertical folds, some rust at left. 18 2 India. Reserve Bank of India Ten Rupees 2018 x10 in sequence, uncirculated. (10) 10 3 Mixed lot with UK 1984 One Pound in Raffles presentation pack, unc, also Indonesia, Nigeria 20 1968 Five Shillings x2 types, Biafra x3, France, Spain Japanese Occupation of Netherlands Indies x2, USA Two Dollars ef. (14) COINS 4 Pearse silver ten shillings 1966 x2, fine. (2) 30 5 Small mixed lot with Pearse 1966 ten shillings (tarnished), Irish halfcrowns x3 (1961, 1963 & 25 1964), UK halfcrowns x3 (1928, 1947 x2), USA dollars 1972 x2, half-dollars x3 (1964 x2, 1976) etc. Mainly fine to vf. (44) 6 Central Bank 2004 Year Set in presentation pack featuring Reginald's Tower. Brilliant unc. 18 7 Central Bank 2009 Year Set in presentation pack for 125th anniversary of GAA. Brilliant unc. 18 8 Token. W. Parker's halfpenny token 1794. seated female MAY IRELAND EVER FLOURISH, 20 rev fire grate DUBLIN HALFPENNY / 1794, edge inscribed PAYABLE IN LANCASTER LONDON OR BRISTOL. Very fine. 9 Netherlands. Uncirculated euro sets of 8 for 2000 and 2002 on presentation pages, also Spain 18 2003 one, two, five and ten cents plus one euro unc, loose. (21) 10 UK. George III cartwheel twopence fine, modern commemorative crowns1965 Churchill x2, 30 1972 Silver Wedding, 1977 Silver Jubilee x4, 1980 Queen Mother, 1981 Charles & Diana x3, mostly ef, three yellow metal medallions, Guernsey 70th Wedding anniversary, 2011 Wedding of William & Kate x2 different, unc. (14) 11 UK. Mixed lot with much copper all periods, brass threepences and a few decimal. Good to 16 fine. (250) 12 USA. Presidential dollars 2007-12 x5: Washington, Lincoln, Grant, Harrison & Arthur. 10 Extremely fine. (5) Handling Charge of €2 on each item Collectibles Corner First Come First Served List 99 May 2019 Item Price€ MEDALS, BADGES & MILITARIA 13 "Irish Army Lists of King Charles II 1661-1685" ed Charles Dalton, 2000 facsimile reproduction 30 of 1907 original, by Eamonn de Burca, hardback with leather spine 176 pages in slipcase. 14 Irish Defence Forces brass tunic buttons, by Dowler x9, Buttons Ltd x8, plus four small size. 15 Fine. (21) 15 "Clear the Way: A History of the 38th (Irish) Brigade 1941-47" Richard Doherty 1993 paperback 15 336 pages. Fine. 16 "The Irish Sword" Journal of The Military History Society of Ireland x two issues, Winter 1996 & 8 Summer 1997. Fine. (2) 17 "Soldiers of the Short Grass: A History of the Curragh Camp" Dan Harvey 2016 paperback 196 6 pages. Fine. 18 USA. Military medal "Republic of Vietnam Service" with ribbon, very fine. 15 19 Group of modern lapel badges, mainly 1990s, with Canada regions x8, various Wal-Mart x10 16 and 5 others. Fine. (23) CIGARETTE CARDS 20 Cigarette Cards. Players "Game Birds & Wild Fowl" 1927 complete set in slot-in album, 30 mainly fine. (50) 21 Cigarette Cards. Players "Hints on Association Football" 1934 set of 50 stuck down in printed 20 Players album. Fine. (50) 22 Cigarette Cards. Players "Napoleon" 1915 set of 25. Fine. (25) 20 23 Trade & Playing Cards. Dandy "Rock & Bubble", Dubreq "Kevin Keegan Play Better Soccer", 18 Figure Dynamics "Pack of Diets", Castell "Kargo" golf game, Pepys "Happy Families". All apparently complete sets, packaging on last two is poor, cards fine. (5) EPHEMERA: Ireland (by date) 24 Irish Loyal & Patriotic Union handbills, some with local reference: Castlefarm Tragedy, National 30 League v The Queen Skibbereen, The Spirit of the People Killorglin, Cork Defence Union x3, Bantry Union Por Law Guardians, Outrage in Co Kerry, Parnell at Wexford, Wesleyans & Home Rule, Cardinal MacCabe on Women in Politics, Pope's Circular, Primrose League, To the Presbyterians of Scotland, Declaration of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. Fine. (15) 25 Methodist Society quarterly ticket for Sept 1883 issued to Geo Shackelton. Few rust spots, 14 very good. 26 "James Clarence Mangan: His Selected Poems with a Study by the Editor" Louise Imogen 15 Guiney hardback 361 pages. Very good 27 "Extracts from the Bye-Laws of the Dublin Cemeteries Committee" 1908 card covers 36 pages, 15 covers Goldenbridge & Glasnevin Ceneteries and includes charges. Very good. 28 Alliance & Dublin Consumers' Gas Company receipt dated July 1916 to Carmelite Friary 5 Clarendon Street. Spike hole, very good. 29 Theatre Royal (Hippodrome & Winter Gardens) programmes for 1917 "Robinson Crusoe" and 20 1918 "Bobo". Very good. (2) 30 "The Axe to the Root" James Connolly 1921 edition, soft covers 43 pages. Fine. 20 31 "Days of Fear" Frank Gallagher 1928 first edition hardback 175 pages. Fine. 18 32 Guinness Bottle labels. Unused range of 19 with duplication, 19 in total, Guinness's Porter, 16 Guinness's Extra Stout, also Robert Poots & Co Dromore, plus small oval label "You are invited to visit our Breweries…" and unused Visitor's Permission to View card. Fine. (21) Handling Charge of €2 on each item Collectibles Corner First Come First Served List 99 May 2019 Item Price€ 33 Maps. Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland one-inch maps, 1935-1960s, Mourne Mountains, 25 Belfast 1st and 3rd series, Armagh, Mid-Antrim, Omagh, also Ballymena/Larne 1:50,000. Good to fine. (7) 34 Railway. Handbills for 1938 LMS Special Day excursions to Dublin via Holyhead & Kingstown 18 and 1948 Belfast & County Down Railway for Belfast day excursions to Bangor. Fine. (2) 35 1945 official programme for Military Tattoo & Exhibition at RDS, publ Parkside Press. Very 15 36 "Ireland Now" David O'Neill 1948 soft covers 84 pages, published by Basil Clancy. Very good. 20 37 "Bunreacht na hEireann (Dreacht)" Constitution of Ireland as introduced in Dail Eireann, in 15 English and Irish published by Stationers Office 116 pages, no cover. 38 "Dublin: A Study in Environment" John Harvey 1949 hardback, damaged dust jacket. Good. 6 39 Theatre Programmes. 1950-74 Gaiety, Theatre Royal incl 1950 Chipperfields Circus, Abbey, 18 Gate, also 1986 Dublin Theatre Festival programme, 1936 St Patrick's Cathedral memorial service sheet for King George V, 1942 programme for "Fantasia" at Astor Cinema. Good to fine. (10) 40 Rail. Ulster Transport Authority booklet "Regulations for Train Signalling (for information of staff 10 only)" 1952. Fine. 41 1953 Allen & Townsend auction catalogue for contents of Granite Field, Rochestown Avenue, 12 Dun Laoghaire. Fine. 42 "History of Terenure" Brian Mac Giolla Phadraig 1954 publ by Veritas, white cover, 76 pages. 10 Very good. 43 Three Hodges Figgis book catalogues: 1957 Books Relating to Ireland, undated 1960s ditto 18 Catalogue 14, 1968 Catalogue 23 Celtic Studies. Fine. (3) 44 "Castleknock College Chronicle" 1957 paper covers, loose and damaged at spine, printed At 10 the Sign of the Three Candles, 112 pages plus adverts. Good. 45 Aer Lingus. 1960 timetable plus Aer Sceala May 1986 Special Commemorative issue for 50th 18 anniversary, special Aer Lingus Birthday menu 27th May 1986, and Aer Lingus map of Ireland. Very good to fine. (4) 46 Mixed range of magazines. 1960s "Funny Half Hour" (risque cartoons) x2, 1970s "World of 15 Horror", 1983 "Irish Snooker News", 2009 "In Touch" official IRFU magazine. Fine. (5) 47 Literary Magazines. "The Dubliner" July/Aug 1962, "The Dublin Magazine" Spring 1968, "The 20 Kilkenny Magazine" x3, Spring/Summer 1967, Spring 1969 & Autumn/Winter 1970, The Literary Review "Small Gifts of Knowing: New Irish Poetry & Prose" 1997. Fine. (6) 48 "The Easter Rebellion" Max Caulfield 1964 hardback with dust jacket, 391 pages, maps on 30 endpapers. Fine. 49 "An Beal Bocht" Myles na gCopaleen 1964 3rd edition hard back with dust jacket designed by 24 Sean O'Sullivan, 111 pages. Book fine, jacket minor edge faults. 50 "Dublin Official Guide" with fold-out street plan, soft covers 164 pages, 1960s. Very good. 12 51 "Seachtar Fear Seacht La" Bryan McMahon 1966 programme for pageant at Croke Park, 16 18 pages. Fine. 52 1916 Rising. 1966 catalogue for "Cuimhneachan 1916" commemorative exhibition at National 25 Gallery of Ireland, card covers 96 pages, also "The Story of the 1916 Proclamation" John O'Connor 28 page booklet, and 1991 souvenir programme for 75th anniversary of Rising concert, parade & pageant, 24 pages.