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  • NOT JUST ANY OLD SHIP IN A BOTTLE

    Bewleys ship in bottle. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Not just any ship in a bottle this one of The Hellas at Mullen’s Collectors Cabinet sale in Bray on October 15 tells the story of an economic war fought nearly 200 years ago. The tea clippper was chartered by Samuel and Charles Bewley in 1835 to break the East India Company’s monopoly on importation of tea into Ireland. It is in a Hamilton Long and Co. bottle on a timber stand. Lot 21 in the auction, estimated at 200-300, was gifted by the Bewley family to a former housekeeper at their home at Willow Park, Blackrock, Dublin and was in turn purchased by the current owner from her daughter.

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