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photograph / Artillery Militia; 19thc
Photograph, with two Officers in British Army uniform shown. Housed in plush box or case. Brown leather exterior. Ornate brass clasps. Lined with rich red velvet. Decorative brass frame surrounding photograph frame.
brooch / Brian Boru harp, 1850
Silver gilt replica Brian Boru brooch. Harp shaped with pin and hook clasp on back. Harp with nine metal strings, engraved with Celtic design. Stamped 'Waterhouse & Co. Dublin' With box with brown dome topped box lined with blue satin and velvet. With maker's crest 'Jewellers and Watchmakers to the...
purse / Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Leinster Family
Wallet which belonged to or related to Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Green leather purse/wallet with two interior compartments lined in green silk and with a small silvered metal lock; small printed paper label stuck to the inside reads 'N. Middleton, Manufacturer, Retail and for Exportation, 162,...
ribbon / Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Leinster Family
A length of Irish silk ribbon woven in a vibrant shade of green, probably bought by patriots c.1798 for cockades, ribbons, etc; badly split but unfaded. Part of the contents of the green leather purse/wallet belonging to or relating to Lord Edward Fitzgerald.
sample / Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Leinster Family
A small paper package containing a tiny scrap of buff coloured felt like fabric; handwritten on the package is 'a bit of lining of his great coat, Oct 22nd 1797'. Refers to Lord Edward Fitzgerald. Part of the contents of the green leather purse/wallet belonging to or relating to Lord Edward...
sample / Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Leinster Family
A small packet containing a fragment of Irish velveteen style woven fabric, blue stripes on a cream ground; with a similar sized fragment of calico lining; handwritten on the packet the words 'a bit of the waistcoat he wore the day he was wounded, June 4th 1798'; June the 4th has a line through...
sewing roll / Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Leinster Family
A sewing roll made of a length of silk brocade of a pattern woven in Dublin in the 1770s; consisting of a long pocket with lines of stitching on the interior of the roll, two small flaps of wool flannel hand stitched to the inside with three needles attached; the edges of the roll bound in pink...
purse / Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Leinster Family
A small purse of cream silk, with a drawstring of grey ribbon, hand stitched with green thread; originally containing a lock of Lord Edward's hair when he was a boy. Lock retained by the National Library, November 2001. Part of the contents of a small green purse of wallet belonging to or relating...
purse / Lord Edward Fitzgerald / Leinster Family
A small purse of yellow silk, hand stitched with a drawstring cord of silk in the same colour; one side of the purse has a lining of paper. Part of the contents of a small green purse of wallet belonging to or relating to Lord Edward Fitzgerald. The green purse and its contents were bequeathed to...