EKCO all-electric radio receiver. Type A22. Product of E.K. Cole Ltd, Southend-on-Sea, England.

Large hand painted ceramic cows head vase, black and white with pink nose

Measuring tape which belonged to Dr. James Hanlon, with beads sewn on for each inch, and a stich at each quarter of an inch.

A pair of mother of pearl handled magnifying glass and letter opener.

Black, iron door knocker from Gills Bookshop on Upper O'Connell Street with a hand and a wreath.
This iron knocker is from Gills bookshop formerly on Upper O’Connell Street. The building was one of the few in the street to survive the bombardment of 1916 and remained unchanged from its construction c. 1790 until the shop front was remodelled in 1965. The building was destroyed by fire in September 1979.

The knocker will have been used by a host of famous writers, academics, politicians and churchmen who were either published by Gills or visited the bookshop. Among these were Patrick Pearse, Arthur Griffith, W.B. Yeats, William Carleton, Eoin MacNeill, William Bulfin, Daniel Corkery, Douglas Hyde, Sinéad de Valera, Canon Sheehan and Sir William Wilde.

During the War of Independence the basement of the building was occasionally used as a practise firing range by Dick McKee and other members of the IRA. The target was a framed picture of King George V of England. McKee worked in Gills as a printer and the sound of gunfire was absorbed by the thousands of books stored in the basement.

Gill is mentioned twice in James Joyce’s Ulysses and the company features briefly in Finnegan’s Wake.

6 taxidermy ducklings on black round base

From India, with sandlewood lining, the hinged cover mounted with a model a carved elephant. 19th century. Property of Dr Emmet Davit, Ailesbury Drive, Dublin 4.

folding writing desk, calligraphy pen and nibs included