Birth-Year Coin Cufflinks & Birthday Gifts
1928 Irish Sixpence Coin Cufflinks
£149.00
1928 Birth-Year Gift. These cufflinks are made from genuine very rare Irish sixpence coins dated 1928, the first issue year of the Irish Free State’s new national coinage. The coins feature Percy Metcalfe’s Irish wolfhound and the harp with “Saorstát Éireann”, meaning Irish Free State, with the date divided around it. W. B. Yeats chaired the Coinage Committee that selected the designs. Give a rare piece of Irish history as a gift today.
Description
1928
BORN THAT YEAR WERE:
Andy Warhol (artist)
Shirley Temple (Actress)
INVENTIONS IN 1928 INCLUDED
The Electric Shaver was Patented
Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to cross the Atlantic by aeroplane, travelling as a passenger in a crewed flight.
Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin in 1928 and changed the world of modern medicines by introducing the age of antibiotics and his discovery of penicillin has, and still, saves millions of people.
The cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears on November 18th in Steamboat Willie, an animated 1928 short film produced by Walt Disney.
D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover is privately published in Florence.
The First Yo Yo Factory Opens making YoYo’s in Santa Barbara, California.
