| Billsticker | Date: Sunday, 2012-05-13, 0:20 AM | Message # 1 |
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| Rare unionist poster up for sale
http://www.portadowntimes.co.uk/news....3828264
Published on Friday 11 May 2012 17:07
An extremely rare 99-year-old poster announcing the formation of a provisional government for Ulster is set to go under the hammer at auction.
The copy of the 1913 proclamation by Edward Carson and other leading unionists in the midst of the Home Rule crisis is thought to be the only one of its type left in existence and is expected to go for a potential £30,000.
An unnamed private collector in Northern Ireland has asked Bonhams auctioneers in London to put the artefact up for sale on June 12.
The Ulster Proclamation of Provisional Government signalled the intent of unionists to form their own administration in the nine northern counties of Ireland if Westminster handed powers to a nationalist parliament in Dublin.
It was issued the year after almost half a million people in Ulster signed either the Solemn League and Covenant or Declaration in opposition to Home Rule and as tens of thousands joined the original Ulster Volunteer Force in preparation to resist the move by force.
The crisis was overtaken by the outbreak of World War One and a nine-county government was never formed.
The Irish War of Independence in the wake of the Great War eventually saw the island partitioned in 1921 with the formation of a six-county Northern Ireland still under British rule and an independent southern state.
The proclamation poster, dated September 24, 1913 and printed in blue, is to be auctioned at a Bonhams sale of books, maps, manuscripts and historical photographs. It is estimated at £20,000 to £30,000.
Andrew Currie from Bonhams said: "This is a poster that was put up on walls, so you can image with rain and the passage of time and other things, few survived. We believe this is the last one."
He predicted the item would attract plenty of bidders. "It is a rare historical document relating to the history of a country so I would expect a lot of interest in it," he said.
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| RSAUB | Date: Sunday, 2012-05-13, 1:03 PM | Message # 2 |
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| The Orange should buy this, still a month until th sale on 12th a June. Every step possible to get this poster back into the hands of our community should be taken.
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| Culzie | Date: Wednesday, 2012-05-16, 1:33 PM | Message # 3 |
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| A wee reminder of what could have been. Thankfully it didn't come to that,but maybe if it had, things might have been sorted out then.
Agree that the OO should be 'on the ball' about this.
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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| RSAUB | Date: Wednesday, 2012-05-16, 7:26 PM | Message # 4 |
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| Aye things would have at least been settled and if we possibly had to accept a wee bit less territory, at least we'd have a name and a future instead of the slow drip death that we're suffering at present.
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| Culzie | Date: Wednesday, 2012-05-16, 7:46 PM | Message # 5 |
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| In the book 'Carson's Army the writer gives a critical view of what was possible. He thought that Carson's Army could have taken the nine countes and maybe even beyond that. Suffice to say that Carson would probably have settled for the nine. I can't remember if this assessment included the BA being involved. But I think he was speaking if they stayed out of it. In those days you had thousands ready to take up arms,this time the British goverment have learned the lesson and Protestants will have to be weaned onto an Irish identity and be all together as Irish people. It could well be that the people this time round will go against those who disagree with that.
Ulster Protestants consider themselves to be a separate nation. This nation they call Ulster
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