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LOT 1460
Irish O'Connell Bronze Supporters' Badge Centre
18TH CENTURY A.D.
7 7/8 in. (0.58 grams, 20 mm).
Sheet-bronze, stamped with bust of Daniel O'Connell with surrounding legend: 'D OCONNELL ESQ / REM[BR] 30 MAY 1844'. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Found near Wigan, Lancashire, UK, circa 2006.
Property of a Stowmarket, UK, gentleman.
Footnotes
O'Connell campaigned for the rights of Irish Catholics and for Irish independence from the United Kingdom. He was convicted of seditious conspiracy early in 1844 but this was reversed by the House of Lords later the same year.
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