Erskine Childers’ sword sells in Irish auction
This Royal Navy Reserve officer’s sword owned by Robert Erskine Childers was estimated at €3000-5000 in a recent auction by Mullen’s (20/12.5% buyer’s premium) in Bray, Co Dublin. The scabbard throat of the Victorian 1827-pattern sword is engraved 'RE Childers'.
In 1903 Childers wrote The Riddle of the Sands, a spy story involving an imaginary German raid on …