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  • NO SHORTAGE OF ECLECTIC COLLECTORS AT WHYTE’S DUBLIN AUCTION

    This diving helmet sold for 8,000

    This diving helmet sold for 8,000

    There was no shortage of eclectic collectors at Whyte’s sale in Dublin.  Bidders vied for unusual, once off and financial liquidity hedging lots. A diving helmet by Siebe Gorman and Co., London given as a retirement present to Joe Murphy who used it as a diver with the Dublin Port and Docks during the 1960’s sold for 8,000 at hammer. A Belleek Crouching Venus sculpture sold for 3,800, the wall clock that was in the GPO in Dublin in 1916 made 7,500, a Munster and Leinster Bank Ploughman’s Note sold for 2,500 and a Victorian gold coin from India, 1882 sold for 2,400.

    A Chief Marshalls baton from a Parnell anniversary demonstration in 1890 made 3,800; a 1921 Michael Collins autograph signature written on the mailboat from Holyhead to Dun Laoghaire on the way back from signing The Treat sold for 3,000; a signed special edition of Patrick Kavanagh poetry made 1,400; a Corgi toys Monte Carlo Rally gift set made 1,000; a deactivated British Army bren light machine gun made 2,100 and a 1914-18 German helmet made 1,700.

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