Beschreibung:

Lot 553/0207 Unique Collection of Early 20th Century Autographs A unique collection of over 200 varied Autographs of Irish, English and American Personalities, included are some Rare Irish Political & Republican Related Leaders, Eamon de Valera, Willie Pearse, Batt O’Connor, Erskine Childers, Robert Barton, Sean Lemmas, Sean Mc Bride, Jack Snow, Sean O’Duffy, James Larkin, Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, Nord Connolly O’Brien, Jimmy Hannon, Molly Hyland Lalor, P. Mc Gilligan, and Ed. Carson, Harman Greenwood, infamous Chief Secretary responsible for Black & Tans, Maj. Gen. Crozer Officer Commanding Black & Tans, J. M. Burke, Under Secretary for Ireland, murdered in Phoenix Park, John Ellis Hangman, who executed Roger Casement & Kevin Barry, etc., etc; Actors, Actresses, Film Directors, etc, Charlie Chaplin, Maurice Chevalier, Fred Johnson, Gracie Fields, Norma Shearer, George Robey, Jackie Coogan, Gerard du Maurier, Elena Gerhardt, Georgie Harris, Laura le Planta, Gladys Cooper, Tom Burke, Carl Brisson, Belie Daniels, and many others. Sports Personalities, Boxers Jack Doyle, John Dempsey, Mickey Walker, Gene Tunney, etc; Motor Racing, Melcolm Cambell, Major D. Seagrave; Aviators, Capt. Chas. A. Linderberg, Amelia M. Earhart, Charles Levine; Billiards, Joe Davis & Walter Lindrum; also Seve Donoghue Jockey; Don Bradman Australian Batsman, & J.B. Hobbs; Writers, Rudyard Kipling, John Creasy, Frank B. Kellogg, Philip Gibbs Maurice Walsh, Ethel Mannin, H. de Vere Stacpoole, etc. Various, Thos. A. Edison, inventor; Sir R. Baden-Powell, founder of Boy Scouts; F.P. Wensley, famous London Detective; H. Avory, famous English Judge; Eddie Guerin & Oscar Slater, Famous Criminals, etc; Musicians, Herr Joh. Strauss, F. Kubelick, M.J. Bratza, all violinists; English Politicians, Austin, & Neville Chamberlain. A. Balfour, & Military Leaders, Earl Baldwin, Field-Marshalls Plummer & Allenby, E. Shinwell, Lennox-Boyd, Jellico, British Admiral, Philip Snowdon, Chancellor for Exchequer, etc., also Calvin Coolidge, President of America. There are also some original photographs, postcards, menu cards, & other items of ephemera, including A copy of 1945 Reprint of 1916 Proclamation, together with a small collection of correspondence to Mr. Michael Stafford, relating to his time as a Public Servant, and other related matters. The entire collected in two 4to Albums, one stoutly bound (but loosening) the other cloth, cracked at spine. As a collection of autographs, w.a.f. · A unique collection, assembled by the late Mr. Michael Stafford, T.D. Stafford was a class mate of Willie Pearse, Member of “A” Company 1st Batt. Old. I.R.A. Dublin Brigade; District Justice, Rathmines & Pembroke Republican Courts 1919 – 1922; Republican Councillor Dublin County Council 1920 – 1925; Chairman Rathmines & Pembroke Comhairle Ceanntais (Sinn Fein); Chairman O’Rahilly Cuman Donnybrook (Sinn Fein); Comhairle Ceanntaer Delegate to Ard Fheis; Republican Member General Council County Councils; Mover of Pledge of Allegiance to Dail Eireann at Grangegorman Mental Hospital Board 1920.