Irish Airmails

1932 (Oct. 22) cover for the direct experimental service Galway to Berlin, this cover address to Recife and carried on the Graf Zeppelin 9th South America flight, with special green cachet and all Zep

1929 (Mar. 28) Official Imperial Airways cover with imperf. airmail label, from Dublin for the 1st airmail through to Karachi, Overprint franking incl. 1d 5-line coil, b/s 6 APR 29.

1978 (Oct. 18) Special cover for the Braniff First Training Flight on Air France Concorde, Shannon to Shannon, with on-board cachet. Very scarce.

1932 (Apr. 27) Official Zeppelin postcard accepted from Dublin for the Graf Zeppelin 4th Sth. America flight, addressed to Rio, with flight and transit cachets, Rio de Janeiro arrival b/s May 5th, dec

1932 (Mar.?) Davis printed matter cover accepted from Dublin with "bulk" machine cancel for the Graf Zeppelin 1st Sth. America flight, addressed to Pernambuco, with flight and transit cachets, arrival

2½d pair + 1d 3-line coil for the 6d rate on a "Gould" cover to Paris endorsed "Londres-Paris Airmail", neatly tied by Maryborough cds of 7 SP/23, the First Day of the 2½d. Very faint ageing

Patrick Hennessy RHA (1915-1980) Man Made Man and Rose Oil on Canvas, 61 x 45.5cm (24 x 18”) Signed (on the airmail envelope, top right) Exhibited: Rosc ’71, Irish Imagination 22 October

divided into ten bracket-shaped lobes forming radiating ribs and flaring towards the rim, a slightly convex centre with a dragon coiling amid flames and clouds, the exterior with ten roundels of drago

14 cm. diameter; 5 cm. high

PAIR OF CHINESE BLUE AND WHITE CHICKEN CUPS with retrospective six-character Chenghua reign marks, Kangxi period (1662- Dimensions:14 cm. high; 8.1 cm. diameter and 14 cm. high; 8.2 cm. diameter

with tubular lug handles. Mark of YongZheng to base 47 cm. high

For E. and J. Burke, featuring New York Yankee baseball players 57 x 40 cm.

PAIR OF EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BRONZE CANNONS each raised on a cast iron carriage Provenance: Malahide Castle Dimensions: 60 x 83

LATE MING PERIOD GILT BRONZE BUDDHA seated in vajrasana on a double-lotus base Dimensions:38 cm. high; 30 cm. wide; 21 cm. deep

18 carat white gold. Colour H/I, Clarity SI2. Diamond weight: 5.03 ct.

of rectangular shape, with a domed roof. 450 cm. high; 710 cm. wide; 500 cm. deep

with raised moulded decoration and scroll handles, seal mark of Qianlong. Provenance: The Carlow Collection 28 cm. high

with five claw dragon decoration. Six character mark of Wanli to base 10.5 cm. high; 29 cm. wide; 23 cm. deep

Figure of a horse. 215 cm. high; 300 cm. wide; 90 cm. deep

holding a sword aloft, seated on a double lotus cushion, possibly Ming 19 cm. high

LARGE CHINESE GUAN-TYPE HU-FORM VASE sturdily potted with an ovoid body rising from a splayed foot to a gently flaring mouth, moulded with a ‘straps and rivets’ design, the handles shaped as mythi

of circular form, with a staged moulded ribbed body, raised on tripod supports 10 cm. high; 14 cm. diameter

with all over chrysanthemum decoration. Mark of Jiaqing 57 cm. high

mahogany and parcel gilt marble and brass inset top with serpentine front, above three satinwood cross-banded panels, fronted by a brass foot rest Provenance: Castlehyde House, Co. Cork, Ireland 106 c