Several items of Titanic memorabilia will come up on the second day of Mealy’s auction at the Berkeley Court Hotel in Dublin on April 25. Among them is a 2nd edition 1912 booklet about the disaster from Lloyd’s Weekly News, a report of the formal Board of Trade investigation published by HMSO in 1913 and a memoriam card “In Sacred Memory of The Titanic”. Other items include postcards around the event, the Daily Mirror of April 16, 1912, two untransmitted Marconigrams from the S.S. Carpathia and a 12 page mass booklet for a memorial service at St. Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, April 19, 1912.
On the previous day Mealy’s will offer the Ricardi Moore Collection, the library of an 18th century Irish gentleman from Barne in Co. Tipperary. It will feature rare books on subjects are diverse as science, mechanical engineeering, fortification, electricity, architecture, military history and genealogy.