Kavanaugh skull and bones12/1/2023 ![]() The highest price paid at auction appears to be in 2006 at a Christie’s sale, when a set, measuring 2.7m wide from Newbridge House sold for £57,360/€65,355, followed by a set measuring 2.9m from Dromoland and Bunratty castles, that sold through Adam’s for €47,000. The pride of Irish palaeontology, these creatures, whose antlers could span up to three metres and weigh up to 40kg, hung in old baronial halls, castles and stately homes for centuries. The high calcium carbonate in the marl – most notably Ballybetagh bog, south of Dublin, where many were discovered – acted as a preservative for bones and antlers. “The Irish attribution was a result of the hundreds of remains found buried in the marl underlying the Irish bog land,” according to catalogue notes. Irish mahogany George II side table from 1750, €15,000-€25,000, Adam'sĪn Irish inlaid D-shaped side table, circa 1780, attributed To William Moore of Dublin, €10,000-€15,000, Adam’s For many years these crowns were deemed to be of the Irish elk but in fact are neither Irish nor elk, but are those of Megaloceros Giganteus, the giant beasts that roamed Ireland, Europe, Northern Asia and Africa 13,000 years ago – during the Pleistocene epoch.īuttonback leather club armchair, €400-€600, Adam's One of the highlights is a set of giant Irish deer antlers. The Library Collection, a live online sale by Adam’s of St Stephen’s Green on April 26th, is devoted to period furniture, says James O’Halloran of the auction house. But we will deserve better politics only when we demand it.If you’re an “eclectic aesthete” then you’re likely to find something of interest at an upcoming sale, which has about 400 lots comprising silverware, porcelain, maps, books, paintings and all manner of collectables. We should celebrate that and not allow ourselves to be manipulated by demagoguery about sex, race, and “privilege” as yet another cynical get-out-the-vote tactic. Today, we have two decent, white men of privilege who believe in public service. Should I be jealous if Schuh parlayed a great education into wealth and a beautiful home on Gibson Island? Should I be jealous if Pittman inherited an estate and trust fund, plays polo and rescues race horses? And most of us want to leave a legacy to our descendants, like Pittman’s family. Most of us want to be successful, like Schuh. ![]() Pittman seems steeped in the gentry’s ethos of noblesse oblige - the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged. ![]() Spend the first third of your life learning, the next third earning, and the rest of your life giving back to the community. Schuh tells the story about when he was new to Alex Brown, the managing director shared his philosophy of life: learn, earn, and return. While that is history and not who Pittman is today, inheriting the fruit of antebellum privilege is pretty special. It was a former plantation that built its fortune on slavery, tobacco, and horses. Pittman lives on 550-acre Dodon Farm, which has been in his family for eight generations. ![]() He graduated from Dartmouth, got his MBA from Harvard, and made millions in finance, becoming a managing director at Alex Brown before leaving that world for elected office. Schuh’s father was the golf pro at Crofton Country Club and his mother took on an extra job to get him into the Severn School. Steuart Pittman is challenging County Executive Steve Schuh - a friend of mine since 2004 - and a contrast is being made between the simple farmer and the wealthy financier. It might be gracious of him to publicly thank the man who actually made the appointment - Hogan.Īs we approach this November’s election, “privilege” is the new wedge issue. Now that Elizabeth Morris, an African-American woman, has been elevated to the Circuit Court bench, Snowden is trying to claim the credit (The Capital, Oct. ![]()
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