This original copy of the Proclamation sold for a hammer price of 185,000 at Whyte’s today.
An original copy of the Irish Proclamation sold for 185,000 at Whye’s sale of History and Literature in Dublin this afternoon. It was a busy auction that exhibited a huge appetite for memorabilia and collectibles in this centenary year of the Irish Rising. A bottle of 100 year old whiskey, which Whyte’s believe to be the oldest bottle of Irish whiskey ever offered at auction, sold for a hammer price of 15,000. Eamon de Valera’s 1917 prison autograph book from Dartmoor sold for 5,400 and a collection of memorial posters of leaders of The Rising sold for 4,800 at hammer. Seven examples of 1966 50th anniversary silver ten shilling coins made 2,000 and 1916 Rising medals awarded to husband and wife James and Margaret Joyce sold for a hammer price of 6,800. Three unpublished photographs of Roger Casement on board a German submarine bound for Ireland sold for 4,200.
Many lots exceeded their top estimate. The sale grossed 570,000 and was 82 per cent sold.
(See post on antiquesandartireland.com for March 4, 2016).
A copy of the Proclamation of Independence of the Irish Republic sold for £305,000 at 