More than 80 exhibitors will bring an eclectic selection to the Cork Antique & Art Fair in Moran’s Silver Springs Hotel on September 14 and 15. The twice yearly fair has grown steadily. Exhibitors, who include a number of members of the Irish Antique Dealers Association, will bring a selection of everything from a two and a three row of seats from the Hogan Stand at the old Croke Park to sapphire rings to silver candlesticks, antique furniture, Irish art, coins, banknotes, books including ten first editions by Arthur Rackham and collectibles of every sort. Organisers Hibernian Antique Fairs promise over 500,000 items priced for sale. Here is a small selection:
A pair of Rococo Silver candelsticks Dublin 1750 by R.Williams priced 25,000 at Weldons.
A Royal Crown Derby urn painted by Cuthbert Greasley c1913 at Brian Hurley’s stand is priced at 550.
A c1911 sapphire and diamond cluster ring is priced at 11,500 at Weldons.
A 1961 lithograph, L’essor I by George Braque, is priced at 2,450 at the Whitley Art Gallery stand.
This Irish George III sugar by Samuel Walker is priced at 2,250 at Weldons stand at the fair.