Antiques in brief
The centenary sale by Fonsie Mealy at the Gresham Hotel in Dublin today is in a venue that is just a stone’s throw from the epicentre of the Easter Rising and contains much memorabilia of that historic time.
Included are the keys to the GPO, the proclamation that was placed in the GPO and a silver dish ring given as a wedding present to Terence MacSwiney, the Republican lord mayor of Cork who died on hunger strike in Brixton Prison.
