Historical and Art Medals, Numismatic Books

Ireland, General Maxwell, ‘Ireland’s Gravedigger’, 1916, a cast copper medal by W. Eberbach, skeleton right, smoking a pipe and holding a bunch of flowers, seated on coffin inscribed home rule ·r·i·p·, rev. Irish shield with spade decorated with the Royal Standard, 68mm (Frankenhuis 1495; BDM VII, 245; cf. DNW 32, 546). Extremely fine and very rare (£200-300)

Sir John Grenfell Maxwell (1859-1929), Commander-in-Chief in Ireland after the Easter Rebellion in 1916