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    SINKING LUSITANIA RECRUITMENT POSTER AT WHYTE’S ECLECTIC COLLECTOR SALE

    Friday, April 17th, 2026

    1915. World War I Irish recruiting poster featuring the sinking of the Lusitania. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER

    This dramatic and very rare First World War recruitment poster is lot 122 at Whyte’s Eclectic Collector timed online auction which ends from 1 pm on April 18. The poster, with a graphic image of the sinking of the Lusitania off the Old Head of Kinsale, is estimated at €600-€800. The auction offers lots of very collectible art alongside historical documents of national importance and lots ranging from the foundation document of Sinn Fein written in Arthur Griffith’s hand and an archive of the funeral of O’Donovan Rossa to a Gretsch guitar signed by all members of U2 and a 1964 Rolling Stones Book signed by all members of the band. 

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    PORTRAIT LITHOGRAPHS OF COLLINS AND GRIFFITH AT WHYTE’S

    Tuesday, April 7th, 2026

    Rare portrait lithographs of Michael Collins and Arthur Griffith signed both by the sitters and artist Sir John Lavery feature at Whyte’s timed online Eclectic Collector sale which runs from April 7-18. Lavery painted portraits of Griffith and Collins in 1921 whilst they were in London negotiating the terms of the Irish Treaty. Within months of their portraits being painted, both men were dead – Griffith of a heart attack, Collins assasinated. The lithographs are based on the oil portraits now in the collection of the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin and estimated at €8,000-12,000.

    UPDATE: THESE MADE €8,500 AT HAMMER

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    AN ECLECTIC COLLECTION AT WHYTE’S SALE

    Wednesday, May 2nd, 2018

    With a selection ranging from historical documents and sporting memorabiliea to films posters and tribal masks from The Congo the Eclectic Collector sale at Whyte’s in Molesworth St., Dublin on May 5.  There are rock and pop collectibles, medals, militaria, coins includes a collection of James II gunmoney, rare books, maps, silver and curios.  The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:

    UPDATE:  The sale totalled  230,000 with 75% of lots sold.

    Hound of the Baskervilles, cinema poster.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,800 AT HAMMER

    Great Southern Railways, Irlande, travel poster.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 900 AT HAMMER

    1939-1945 Japanese Officers Type 98 Gunto Katana  UPDATE: THIS MADE 800 AT HAMMER

    17th Century map of Ireland by Blaeu.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 400 AT HAMMER

    An 1835 certificate permitting a male midwife to practice in Ireland.  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    A 1942 merchant medal for Dublin sailor Philip Hopkins lost at sea.  UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,100 AT HAMMER

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