There is plenty to cause interest at an auction at Hegarty’s in Bandon on Sunday, January 31. The sale offers furniture from a west Cork country house and items previously in the Coolmaine Castle collection. There is antique furniture, mirrors, Irish and English silver, about 30 lots of art and garden furniture. The catalogue is online. Here is a small selection:
A group of Swiss carved 19th century Black Forest furniture (5,000-8,000)
Four Irish silver spoons with unicorn crest, Dublin 1831-31 (200-300).
A 19th century walnut and marquetry bureau de dame (3,000-4,000)
A mid 19th century bracket clock by Shortsinger of Belfast (1,500-2,000).