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arnhem44

Here's something that may be of interest to some who collect things to do with the Uprising.This is a gold locket with photo to a British Officer who was killed on Easter Monday.Est.£120-£160 and auction on the 22nd of February

http://www.sworder.co.uk/lots/view/22609

HerrScheisse

Thanks for posting that Arnhem. Can you see the current bid price? or is it that you just place an e-bid and hope it is higher than what it goes for at the physical auction?

arnhem44

HerrScheisse wrote: »

Thanks for posting that Arnhem. Can you see the current bid price? or is it that you just place an e-bid and hope it is higher than what it goes for at the physical auction?

This is a normal auction and the price reflected is the price the auctioneer has estimated the item will be sold for,of course it could make less or it could make more.My belief is it will sell for more.The price shown will remain like that while it's listed in the catalogue and won't alter if there is bids being placed over the Internet.For Internet bidders I would imagine absentee bids can be placed or the auction may even appear live on the Internet and bidding can be done in real time.For anyone interested I think they should read the auction rooms terms and conditions and how bidding is conducted just to make sure how things are done correctly.

arnhem44

Another interesting connection to the War Of Independence here,a WW1 trio to an Intelligence Officer who died in Ireland in 1921.These medals are pricey but something like these would be very seldom seen on the market.

http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300530449377&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT



Arthur Raymond Boscawen Savage died on 18 May 1921, at the age of 52, whilst serving in Ireland as an Intelligence Officer, in Dublin District. He is buried at Grangegorman Military Cemetery, County Dublin, Ireland (photograph of grave included). Sold with research including twelve pages of research copied from his P.R.O. correspondence file, mostly relating to his problems with alcohol addiction. The following is extracted from a confidential testimony submitted to the Recruiting Officer of the R.I.C. on 13 May 1921: ‘Major A. R. B. Savage, Royal Field Artillery, aged 53, obtained his first commission in the Royal Artillery on 23 July 1887. In 1906 after reports of unfitness to command and addiction to alcohol, he was called upon to retire, and was appointed to the Reserve of Officers. Major Savage was called up for service at the outbreak of the war, and, after a short term in France did duty with a Reserve Brigade at home until relegated to unemployment on account of ill health on 22.6.1918.
Medals court mounted with original ribbons.
Very rare confirmed Intelligence Officer (DUBLIN CASTLE) in Ireland during the Anglo-Irish War 1919-22

And just to add,here is his CWGC details http://www.cwgc.org/search/casualty_details.aspx?casualty=900489

Morlar

I believe that group were on sale for £80 and reached £440 last year.

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=152283

http://1914-1918.invisionzone.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=152523&st=0&gopid=1468483&#entry1468483

Robus

HerrScheisse wrote: »

I would dearly love to have a piece of Irish history but I am too wary. Firstly the medals are quite expensive (relatively speaking) and heavily reproduced.

Perhaps try here www.theeasterrising.eu

HerrScheisse

That is what I like to see - awards where the history behind them is researched. And even details of his personal problems such as his alcohol addiction. Makes you wonder about why his superiors put him in intelligence if they considered him unfit!

Very nice set but a bit too pricey for me

citizen_p

get your bids in quick lads
LINK

DEAR FRIENDS,
YOU ARE BIDDING FOR A FAMILLY RELIC. THIS WOOLEN GERMAN HAT WAS BROUGHT
BY MY GRANDFATHER IN 1945 FROM AUSTRIA. IN MAY 1945, HE, AS A BULGARIAN SOLDIER FOUGHT AGAINST THE NAZI FORCES IN AUSTRIA, AND HE HAVE TAKE IT FROM THE BATTLEFIELD.
THEN HE DECIDED TO TAKE THIS HAT AS A SOUVENIR FORM THE FRONT.
THANKS TO GOD, HE HAS GOT HOME ALIVE BRINGING THAT HAT.
UNTIL TODAY IT IS A FAMILLY SOUVENIR AND BECAUSE OF THAT STORY, THIS HAT HAVE A HIGH VALUE FOR US.
WE HAVE DECIDED TO SELL IT BECAUSE, WE HAVE SOME DIFFICULTIES NOW .
I HOPE, THAT THE NEXT OWNER WILL TAKE CARE FOR THIS RELIC.

wow a vet bring back! anyone smell that bullsh...




compared to


I actully laughed out loud after seeing this....

HerrScheisse

He must have made his grandmother knit it for him

Check out the white wool LOL!

citizen_p

Im surprised it sold tbh...

ollaetta

Mousey- wrote: »

Im surprised it sold tbh...

Shocking stuff alright and the buyer is no eBay novice. He/she has over 850 transactions.

Morlar

This lot sold in London recently :

WHILE Queen Elizabeth was in Dublin honouring those who died fighting for Irish independence, the medals of the British general who suppressed the 1916 Rising were auctioned in London.

The “honours and awards” given to General Sir John Maxwell – the British military commander in Dublin in 1916 who ordered the execution of the Rising’s leaders – sold for £26,000 to an unnamed bidder, at Dix Noonan Webb, the numismatic auctioneer in Mayfair.

The collection included the insignia awarded to Maxwell for assisting with a royal visit to Ireland. In 1903, he helped organise the visit of King Edward VII to Ireland, and was appointed a commander of the Royal Victorian Order – the honours system to reward service to the monarch.

Auctioneer David Erskine-Hill said the “splendid array” included all of Maxwell’s major medals. He served at the Battle of Omdurman in Sudan, the Boer War in South Africa and commanded British troops in Egypt during the early part of the first World War.

– MP

citizen_p

Micheal Collins used Postcard
went for €115.72
LINK - ebay

BlackEdelweiss

I'm not sure exactly what this is but I thought it might interest someone on here. It looks very heavy to be a dog tag, and it is made out of silver!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IRISH-Silver-Identity-Tag-LIEUT-O-Donovan-R-C-154328-/250827895808?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item3a6681f400#ht_2441wt_1139

BlackEdelweiss

If this is genuine it probably saw a bit of action this day 67 years ago.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-GERMAN-WW2-BARBED-WIRE-UTAH-/250832240848?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item3a66c440d0#ht_500wt_1156

arnhem44

BlackEdelweiss wrote: »

I'm not sure exactly what this is but I thought it might interest someone on here. It looks very heavy to be a dog tag, and it is made out of silver!

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IRISH-Silver-Identity-Tag-LIEUT-O-Donovan-R-C-154328-/250827895808?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item3a6681f400#ht_2441wt_1139

It's an identity bracelet,privately made.The belief in the Great War was that the fibre dog tags could rot away if your body was not recovered soon after being killed so soldiers took it upon themselves to have these made up or fashioned ones themselves out of whatever they could find,a sort of trench art if you like,this idea was carried forward into WW2.This mans name was Cornelius Anthony O'Donovan who served in the Royal Army Pay Corps mentioned in the London Gazette here in 1940 http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34997/supplements/6681/page.pdf

arnhem44

So then,anyone interested? http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/IRISH-EASTER-RISING-MEDAL-BLACK-TAN-IRA-MEDAL-BOXES-/250832085420?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item3a66c1e1ac

arnhem44

Another War of Independence medal here,non combat version.This medal has now been listed for the third time and still no bids,current price is 259 euros.Lately I saw one of these sell on ebay for 286 euros so prices seem to have dropped off on ebay somewhat on these medals.
http://cgi.ebay.ie/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=200616683923&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

arnhem44

Not often you see two sets of Uprising and WOI medals come up for sell but here's another one http://cgi.ebay.ie/IRISH-MEDALS-1916-RISING-BLACK-TAN-COMRAC-BOXED-/280693812221?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item415aa7abfd

HerrScheisse

Some Independance related material:

http://cgi.ebay.ie/IRISH-VOLUNTEERS-DOCUMENTS-MOUNTJOY-JAIL-1918-/260800051245?pt=UK_Collectables_Memorabila_RL&hash=item3cb8e4f82d

http://cgi.ebay.ie/IRISH-VOLUNTEERS-EASTER-RISING-MILITARY-SERVICE-CERT-/260800054385?pt=UK_Collectables_Memorabila_RL&hash=item3cb8e50471

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Irish-Loyal-Dublin-Ulster-Volunteer-Badge-/200617861473?pt=UK_Collectables_Memorabila_RL&hash=item2eb5c1a161

phaethon

Hi guys,

You never know from where is possible to pick up something for collection!

Not my interest but if the price was right, never knows.... Anyway, I am sure its gone by now. And my "local" pub is just 50 meters from that place :cool:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/...298691137.html

arnhem44

I saw this earlier and thought some might be interested in such things,as for the price then that's another story.Are cards like this this expensive or is this lad having a laugh?

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Sean-Costello-postcard-Irish-Rebelion-May-1916-/280699419192?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item415afd3a38

Morlar

arnhem44 wrote: »

I saw this earlier and thought some might be interested in such things,as for the price then that's another story.Are cards like this this expensive or is this lad having a laugh?

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Sean-Costello-postcard-Irish-Rebelion-May-1916-/280699419192?pt=UK_Collectables_Postcards_MJ&hash=item415afd3a38

I'd love to see the complete list and the amount of each card printed. I don't have this one above but I'd be surprised if that was a good price.

This is a good (though not conclusive) reference site for the different series :

http://theeasterrising.eu/100Postc/Postca.htm

FYI looks like this seller had previously tried to sell it at an even higher price :

http://cgi.ebay.ie/Sean-Costello-postcard-Irish-Rebelion-May-1916-/280638968961

Price: EUR 220.00

Morlar

This one just sold - not militaria but still an unusual item that a gun collector may be interested in.

http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/06/22/capone.revolver.auction/index.html?hpt=hp_bn12

London (CNN) -- Al Capone, or Scarface as he was popularly known, remains one of America's most notorious gangsters.

With his custom-made suits, fedora and spats, the mobster cut an impressive figure in 1920s gangland Chicago -- and won him legions of fans, despite his many criminal activities, which included bootlegging and racketeering.

Now a revolver once owned by Capone has sold at Christie's auction house in London for $109,080, just shy of its upper estimate of $113,000, despite it being a fairly commonplace model for the time.

"It's a small-frame, narrow-grip, short-barreled revolver which would have been the perfect accompaniment for the dapper gangster about town, slotted under a jacket without making a bulge," explained Howard Dixon, a specialist in Arms and Armor at the auction house.
The Colt. 38 Police Positive double-action revolver was manufactured in 1929, the same year as the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre, in which seven members of Chicago's North Side Irish Gang were shot and killed, allegedly at Capone's orders.

The revolver was passed to Capone's brother Ralph upon his death in 1947 and then onto his sister-in-law, said Dixon. It was put up for sale by a private collector and came with an affidavit sworn in 1990 by Ralph Capone's widow that the gun belonged to Al Capone.

"It's certainly had some shots fired through it, looking at the general condition," said Dixon. "One can suppose that, yes, it could have seen some action somewhere."

Personal articles of Capone's rarely come onto the market, Dixon said, and when they do they tend to generate heat in the salesrooms. The reason, he said, has more to do with Capone's notoriety than anything special about the objects themselves.

"A firearm like this, where you can place it in a particular moment in history, and more importantly, to an infamous person's own hands, is going to appeal not just to gun collectors but people who collect the cult the celebrity," Dixon said.

So why does this mobster, who reigned Chicago's ganglands for a comparatively short period in the roaring 20s, continue to be such a cult figure?

According to Lorcan Otway, director of the Museum of the American Gangster in New York, Capone was adept at creating a public image that captured the imagination of Americans, a feat helped greatly by new media outlets of the time.

"He did horrible things, he was certainly a dangerous criminal thug, but he's a much more complicated figure than has come out in the films and such. He was actually extraordinarily generous and promoted the idea of the businessman criminal who spreads the money around," said Otway.

Capone's legacy as an urban Robin Hood figure is mitigated by the fact that "he did things that Robin of Loxley would have hated himself for," Otway said.

"But when you see newsreels of hundreds and hundreds of people following him from the court house to the car, you see that he had this movie-star status," he added.

And Otway believes that Capone continues to speak to the American psyche. "We see ourselves as the individual against society and Capone feeds that view of American individualism," he said.

And the fact that Capone's one lengthy spell in jail was only for tax evasion cements his status as the successful outlaw.

Capone's notoriety has dogged his family for years. Deirdre Marie Capone, his grandniece and author of the book "Uncle Al Capone: The untold story from inside his family," told CNN that she hid her heritage for years.

But in spite of his infamy and the pain it once caused her family, she said would never sell any of his effects at auction.

"When his mother died, she gave me a tie-tack of Al's and I made it into a bob that goes onto a necklace, but I wouldn't part with it for anything," Capone said.

Speaking before auction, Dixon said he beileved that the revolver could well reach its upper estimate.

"One the one hand, the fact that it's a firearm might have a slight stigma to it," he said. "On the other hand, the fact that it is a firearm is part of the appeal."

Otway -- whose museum is housed in a former speakeasy -- believes that interest in Capone is soaring again, a fact that he puts down to the economic realities of the present day.

"I think people feel nostalgia for that time, when Prohibition was causing the beginning of the shaking of the American economy, and you had people just partying their way into the Depression," he said.

Morlar

Available until tomorrow - Stalingrad related photo albums (3) a snip at €3,200.00

http://cgi.ebay.de/Fotos-WH-Streifendienst-Bohmen-Mahren-Brest-Stalingrad-/150621641070

HerrScheisse

I would find it a great pity that this item falls into private hands. The wartime passport of a famous Irish writer. I would rather a Joycean Foundation bid for it and display it for the public.

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0628/1224299681060.html

Curiously he lists Barnacle as his wife although they only married in 1931...it is expected to reach 50 to 70k.

Issued while he penned Ulysses. If only it were as easy to read as his private letters

"I wish you were strong, strong, dear, and had a big full proud bosom and big fat thighs. I would love to be whipped by you..."

Judgement Day

BlackEdelweiss wrote: »

If this is genuine it probably saw a bit of action this day 67 years ago.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GENUINE-GERMAN-WW2-BARBED-WIRE-UTAH-/250832240848?pt=UK_Collectables_Militaria_LE&hash=item3a66c440d0#ht_500wt_1156

I was amused to note that the vendor of this piece of rubbish describes himself (?) as a trustworthy ebayer but given that he admits to stealing the piece of wire perhaps a small t in trustworthy. Anybody want a piece of genuine concrete from a nearby building site the Berlin Wall?

PS I note that three attempts to sell it saw the price drop from £14.99 to £3.99 with still no joy.

Morlar

There are some interesting senior figure German & allied WW2 items coming up for auction shortly. The .pdf catalogue is here :

http://www.alexautographs.com/pdfs/A45_Part1_1w.pdf

HerrScheisse

Some nice items there - have you ever used them before? Are the estimates accurate?

Those Enola Gay boys must have signed an awful lot of autographs.

Morlar

HerrScheisse wrote: »

Some nice items there - have you ever used them before? Are the estimates accurate?

Those Enola Gay boys must have signed an awful lot of autographs.

No, I haven't bought from this auction house before, but I would have no problem doing so (aside from not having a few thousand spare euros!) I think some of those estimates are low, some of the others (higher end items) are probably optimistic. For the price range I am in some of the estimates would represent good value. I think bargains can be found at larger auctions depending on where the item is placed in the running order. I would love to attend this one in person but not much chance of that at the moment.