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Lr Gardiner St. Possibly 1930s – regularly stolen to heel shoes so holes were put in to stop that. Brown with numbers evenly spaced and with 3 holes. Also has initials BSU on it twice.

In the 1930s the Butchers Social Union found themselves faced with a mystery. Their leather bingo cards kept going missing. One day someone noticed that bingo players were stealing the cards to patch holes in their shoes. So the Union decided to stamp several holes in the cards, thus foiling the thieves.

The Dublin City Seal from the thirteenth century, the earliest item in the City Regalia, gifted in a special presentation book to Ollie Campbell by the Lord Mayor Ben Briscoe. ‘The city is portrayed at peace by a ship at sail in a sea of plenty; on the obverse the city gates are shown under siege with two sentries sounding the alarm, while two archers take aim with their crossbows. On the city walls to heralds also sound the alarm, and on the gates in the foreground are impaled the heads of three offenders as a dire warning’ ‘Stamped around the rim on both sides are the words “Sigillum Commune Dublinie” or “The Common Seal of the City of Dublin”’ The presentation box itself is signed by Ben Briscoe and has a picture of the Mansion House on the cover.

Cardboard Weir and Sons box with dark blue writing ‘Weir and Sons manufacturing Jewellers and Silversmiths. 96 Grafton Street and 1, 2 and 3 Wicklow Street, Dublin. 33 Donegal Place, Belfast.’ Also has two stickers with items ‘Silver Sweet Baskets’ and ‘Candle stick tops’ written on them.

Phone directory with brown and red cover with white writing. ‘Eolaí Telefóin na hÉireann Irish Telephone Directory Deireadh Fómhair – October – 1962

This small telephone directory covers the whole of the Republic of Ireland – and less than half the book is devoted to phone numbers outside of Dublin. The first pages contain instructions on using a phone, with advice like ‘replace receiver before re-dialling,’ and ‘speak directly into the transmitter.’ There was no standard emergency number in those days – it is 999, 9999, 10 or 0, depending on the user’s location.

Nusight magazine dated December 1969 with headline ‘Profile of the Sixties’ and a picture of Sean Lemass.