UPDATE: THIS MADE €1,050
A framed partial life jacket made from cork and covered with canvas from the Lusitania, torpedoed off Cork in 1915, comes up at Hegarty’s sale in Bandon on October 30. Only one complete version of this type of lifejacket from Lusitania has survived and is held at the Merseyside Maritime Museum. The estimate is €200-€400. Antique furniture, jewellery and silver is on offer including a pair of George II Irish silver candlesticks by Isaac D’Olier, Dublin c1750 (€3,000-€4,000). UPDATE: The candlesticks made €2,900.