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  • AN ALBUM WITH A FULL PAGE WRITTEN BY MICHAEL COLLINS

    This 1916 autograph album contains a page written by Michael Collins.

    This 1916 autograph album contains a page written by Michael Collins.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,000 AT HAMMER

    A 1916 album from Frongoch which includes a full page written by Michael Collins and a 1920 Republican prisoners album from Wormwood Scrubbs signed by W.T. Cosgrave feature at Whyte’s History and Literature sale in Dublin on November 8. There are 17th century maps, volunteers belts and buttons, General Maxwell’s dress uniforms as Colonel and General of the Black Watch (42nd) Royal Highland Regiment, a West Limerick Brigade IRA tactical map and prison albums with insights into conditions in internment camps.  A Sinn Fein Tricolour flown over one of the buildings occupied by the Irish Volunteers during the 1916 Rising, a 1916 ambulance log , carved Iron Age stone heads and an ancient gold torc are all included.

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