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A Titanic In Memoriam card at Mealy's is estimated at 120-180. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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.

Lloyd's Weekly News, The Deathless Story of the Titanic is estimated at 180-250. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

The Report of Formal Investigation of the disaster is estimated at 600-800. (Click to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD.

Dublin's GPO and Nelson's Pillar immediately after the Easter Rising of 1916. (Click on image to enlarge). THIS SET SOLD FOR 1,200.

RARE images of Dublin in the immediate aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916 will be auctioned at James Adam on April 18.  More than 650 lots relating to 800 years of Irish political, literary and military history will feature in a sale to be conducted over two sessons.  There is a rare original printing of the 1916 Proclamation, the foundation document of the Irish State read by Patrick Pearse outside the GPO on Easter Monday 1916. Copies for an original print run of 2,000 were posted around the city, but most did not survive.  Adams reckon that not much more than 50 original copies exist. This one is estimated at 60,000-80,000.

Another rarity is the Easter Rising Medal and War of Independence Medal of  Commandant Larry Lardner – Commanding Officer of The Galway Brigade Irish Volunteers Easter 1916 and afterwards.  These are estimated at 8,000-12,000. The case of glass negative slides shows images of Dublin 96 years ago, after the 1916 Rising.  They were taken by J.M. Mitchell and estimated at 800-1,200.  A set of six photographic plates of the Black and Tans and other regular British Forces in Dublin is estimated at 300-500.

Easter 1916, Dublin.

The copy of the original Proclamation in this sale. (Click to enlarge). UPDATE: It sold for 100,000.

Larry Lardner's medals, front and back views. (Click on image to enlarge). THESE WERE UNSOLD.

Revolution in Dublin.

Dublin 1916. THIS COLLECTION OF BLACK AND TANS PHOTOGRAPHS SOLD FOR 550.

The fires of revolution in Dublin, 1916.

FOUR unique Hermès handbags are to be sold by Christie’s in an on-line only sale.  Hermès has created four one-of-a-kind versions of its Passe-Guide handbag representing England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales to celebrate its ‘Leather Forever’ exhibition which opens in London on May 8.  During the exhibition Christie’s will run an on-line only auction of the handbags.  The sale will begin on May 14 and end on May 31.  All proceeds will be donated to The Royal Academy of Arts.  The online-only Hermès Auction builds on the success of Christie’s inaugural ‘online-only’ sale last December as part of the series dedicated to The Collection of Elizabeth Taylor.  The “Leather Forever” exhibition runs at 6 Burlington Gardens, London, W1 from May 8-27 .

Specially created Hermès Passe-Guide handbags representing England, Ireland, Wales and Scotland.

Some of the signed vinyl singles to be sold in Tralee.

Signed vinyl records from Prince to the Bee Gees, Cliff Richard to Barbara Streisand, Lenny Kravitz to Pavarotti are among the collectibles at auction in Tralee on April 10.  A collection of over 70 signed and framed singles will feature at a sale at Kerry Auction Rooms, Moyderwell, Tralee.

Most were autographed at the offices of Radio Maginal at Latimer Road, London in the period from 1977 to 1992, or at venues where artists were playing.  In the early 1990’s the station was sold to MoviePlay,  the name was changed to Marginal FM 98.1, operations moved back to Lisbon and the transition was made from vinyl to digital.

There are signed records by Donna Summer, Jason Donovan, Bronski Beat, Def Leppard, Donny Osmonde, Gary Numan, Hothouse Flowers, ELO, Duran Duran, Take That, Boyzone, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, Blondie and many others.  The large collection will be offered first as one lot with an estimate of 5,500-6,500.  If this is unsold it will be immediately offered as individual lots.  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD AS ONE LOT AND ONLY SOME OF THE INDIVIDUAL LOTS FOUND BUYERS.

The Bee Gees.

Nessun Dorma as a single signed by Pavarotti.

The Titanic sinking telegram is estimated at 20,000-30,000. (Click on image to enlarge). UPDATE: THIS FAILED TO SELL.

A telegram alerting the Belfast Evening Telegraph to the Titanic disaster will be sold at Whyte’s in Dublin on April 21. Dated April 15, 1912 it reads: “White Star Liner Titanic wh. Reuters states is sinking in mid Atlantic as result of collision wi iceberg left Southampton last Wedy. on maiden voyage to New York. Titanic is largest vessel afloat having tonnage of 46,382 or 1004 more than Olympic. She has lgth of 882 feet wi ninety two feet breadth & was luxuriously fitted up wi especial regard to requirements o wealthy Americans”.

On paper headed  ‘Post Office Telegraphs’  it was sent by the Press Association (indicated by P.A. on the top of the form).  It was received by journalist Robert (Bob) McComb, whose newspaper was one of the first to break the news of the sinking.

The Whyte’s catalogue notes point out: It is difficult to comprehend the disbelief and shock which must have greeted this telegram as it arrived at the offices of the Telegraph, the largest selling newspaper in Titanic’s home city of Belfast. The news which the telegram gives reflects the fragmented and sparse nature of the initial information which filtered back to Ireland relating to the fate of the world’s most famous ship. This telegram allowed the Telegraph to achieve the amazing feat of breaking the Titanic news on the same day as the sinking”.   Bob McComb served 34 years on staff of the Telegraph and received the historic telegram as a gift on his retirement.  The Belfast Evening Telegraph published the breaking story in its second edition that afternoon, Monday, April 15, 1912, the first media coverage in Europe of the disaster. The headlines read: “The Titanic Sinking; Collision with Iceberg; Disastrous Maiden Voyage; Women Removed to Lifeboats; Liners Hastening to the Rescue; Wireless Messages Come to Abrupt Termination; Over 2,000 Souls on Board”.  Only 710 of the 2,224 people on board survived.  Of those who died 79 were Irish emigrants who boarded the ship on April 11 at  Queenstown (now Cobh), Co Cork, on its last stop en route to New York.

UPDATE: THIS FAILED TO SELL.