426 A VERY RARE CORK REPUBLIC SILVER STRAWBERRY DISH,, by William Egan Cork 1922, the shaped edge 4” (10cm), 84gr. (1) Note: Cork Republican Silver refers to silverware produced in Cork City during the Irish Civil War. Only sixty to eighty pieces are known to survive. During the Irish Civil War in the summer of 1922, Cork was temporarily held by Anti-Treaty forces. Barry M. Egan, managing director of the family firm of silversmiths William Egan & Sons, devised his own hallmark due to the fact that he was unable to send silver to Dublin for hallmarking. It depicted a two-mast left-facing ship with a single-towered castle to each side. These were struck, using separate dies for the ship and the castle, to the right of the maker’s mark, WE. Once silver could again be sent to Dublin, the dies were destroyed.. €5000 - 8000
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MEALY’S EST 1934