A wonderful Ewer made by Royal Worcester in 1887 finely painted in gold leaf and in fine condition , approximately 25cm tall . Please email for shipping cost.

A military campaign Tantalus made of walnut and banded with brass , this last traveled to Africa and the Boer war with Lt Col Gordan Shakespeare-Higginson of the second battalion the Royal Dublin Fusiliers. Approximately 25 cm square, The box is heavy please email for shipping cost .

A fabulous rare 17th century Irish leather and brass studded dowry chest, dated 1693 and the letters A M on the slightly bowed top. The brass studs decorate the chest with swirls and roundels and stylised flowers. each end has original iron handles , the interior retains much of its marbled decorated paper lining. The whole chest stands proudly on fantastic Brass cannon ball feet.  We bought this about 5 or 6 years ago, we found it in a stable attached to a very big old house called Ballyrankin house near Fearns and Bunclody in Wexford, we bought all the contents of this house. It was in bad condition the bottom right drawer had a hole were the keyhole i,s about as big as a child`s fist going into the drawer and up into the main chest, it was full of 100 hundreds of thousand of very small pieces of coloured cloth that we are sure were flags most likely Irish battle flags, it had been sent to Ballyrankin from Lt Col Gordan Shakespear-Higginson of the second battalion the Royal Dublin Fusiliers on his death in I think 1928 , he had a long history of military forebears many of whom were in India, we know this was in Africa in Cape town in the 1830`s as we found in the bottom left hand corner several small wonderful water colours of Cape town in the 1830`s a small place then! Underneath them were a lot of very wonderful engravings all dated from the 1780`s to the 1790`s which leads us to believe the chest was there for quite some time we found in another Higginson box a solid silver large belt buckle also inscribed Capetown 1833.  The Chest is heavy so please email for shipping costs.

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A rare book of Irish history , first edition , Dj a tad faded with dust staining ex lib numbers on the base of spine of dj, numbers again on book spine with gilt titles and embossed gilt stamp on corner of board, book plate of the Manchester Free Library on fpd small stamps on base of title page & each plate otherwise the book is in wonderful condition 487pp. good dj with removable protector hard back bound in green cloth with 16 fold out maps and plans  1.3kg please contact for shipping cost. Rare  645 euro

Another Rare Kerry history, Hardback  Bound in green buckrum with gilt title name and printers on the spine also with library numbers in white, on front pastedown is a rather fine manchester library stamp and some numbers in pen the first few pages are slightly cockled at the top possibly caused by damp or water some years ago but not stained at all,some library stamps through out and on the back of photos book is very slight loose all that said a very good very scarce book, published by the Kerryman in 1931, 8vo / JP56/  656 pages / 1kg

A fictional romance set in the year 499 Binding and contents are very good bound in a light green cloth with red title label. 682pp. published by Macdonald in London 1951