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In vendita tricolore esposto sul GPO nel 1916 durante Easter Rising

Tricolour from 1916 Rising to be auctioned

Tricolore irlandese | Irish tricolourThe last full-sized Tricolour from the 1916 Rising still in existence is being put up for auction in New York today.

The flag is being auctioned by Bloomsbury Auctions in New York. It is estimated it could fetch up to $500,000.

The Tricolour is thought to have flown from the top of the GPO during the rising.

The auction house’s description says the linen Tricolour is accompanied by a note from Dr George St George, (who owned the flag untill1922) reading ‘Captured by British Troops at GPO Dublin, April 1916 and given to Dr George St George by an old War veteran, Sergt Davis’.

The flag was handed down to Mr St George’s daughter and then was gifted ‘to a neighbour, the son of a famous Irish nationalist and statesman, co-founder and early president of Sinn Féin’.

Bloomsbury Auctions says ‘the fact that this flag is the only recorded full sized Tricolour of the 1916 Rising in existence, and therefore of the utmost rarity and importance, makes it a unique icon of immeasurable significance in the history of the Irish Revolution.’

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René Querin

Di professione grafico e web designer, sono appassionato di trekking e innamorato dell'Irlanda e della sua storia. Insieme ad Andrea Varacalli ho creato e gestisco Les Enfants Terribles.

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