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    DOWNTON ABBEY – THE AUCTION AT BONHAMS

    Saturday, August 16th, 2025

    Hard to believe that it has been 15 years since Downton Abbey first hit our screens. The Golden Globe, BAFTA and primetime Emmy winning series ran for six seasons from 2020-2015 and garnered more than 120 million viewers.  So the auction of props, costumes and set pieces from one of the most popular programmes in the history of British television at Bonhams will generate global interest.

    The sale will run online from next Monday August 18 to September 16, along with a special exhibition at Bonhams London headquarters at New Bond St. Highlights include costumes worn by the ladies including the prop costume and wedding bouquet worn by Michelle Dockery (as Lady Mary), the Downton Abbey bell wall from the servants hall, an autographed script of season one episode one, various cook costumes and pinafores worn by Lesley Nicol (as Mrs. Patmore) and a pair of white leather gloves worn by Rob James-Collier (as Thomas Barrow).

    Carnival Films, part of the Universal Studios group, will contribute proceeds from items they donated to Together for Short Lives, the UK’s leading charity for children with life-limiting conditions and their families. A third and final Downton Abbey film is due for release in September.

    Michelle Dockery (as Lady Mary) prop wedding costume and bouquet. UPDATE: THIS MADE £21,760 INCLUDING PREMIUM

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    ADAMS COUNTRY HOUSE COLLECTIONS AT TOWNLEY HALL

    Friday, August 15th, 2025

    JAMES SEYMOUR (1702-1752) – Sir Edward O’Brien, 2nd Baronet of Dromoland, in Hunting Costume of his Day. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    This painting by James Seymour of Sir Edward O’Brien of Dromoland is already consigned to the James Adam annual Country House Collections sale at Townley Hall near Drogheda. The curated sale of Irish Georgian furniture, paintings and collectibles is scheduled to take place on October 13 and 14. Adams is now seeking final consignments with a deadline of August 22. This painting is estimated at €50,000-€80,000.

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    THOMAS THE TANK ENGINE AT JULIEN’S AUCTIONS

    Thursday, August 14th, 2025

    An original photograph of Ringo Starr and Rev Wilbert Awdry, inscribed by Ringo Starr,

    An online only sale centred on Thomas the Tank Engine by Julien’s Auctions runs until September 9. THOMAS AND FRIENDS: THE BRITT ALLCROFT COLLECTION  features over 200 lots from the British screenwriter, producer, director and voice actress who adapted Rev Awdry’s railway stories into the Thomas series. Voiced by Ringo Starr it was a global success.

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    TIMED ONLINE AT HOME SALE AT JAMES ADAM IN DUBLIN

    Wednesday, August 13th, 2025

    IRISH GEORGE III INLAID MAHOGANY SECRETAIRE BOOKCASE. UPDATE: THIS MADE 3,000 AT HAMMER

    This large secretaire is lot 315 at the James Adam timed online At Home sale which runs until August 27. With broken pediment and scroll rosette terminals centred by a carved eagle the crest on the pediment is that of the Seymour family, Marquesses of Hertford and Dukes of Somerset. The base is fitted with a fall-front secretaire drawer formed as three short cockbeaded dummy drawers with inlaid decoration which opens to reveal a compartmented interior and baize lined writing surface. The estimate is €1,500-2,000. The catalogue for the auction is online.

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    TIMED SALE OF CERAMICS GLASS AND COLLECTIBLES

    Saturday, August 9th, 2025

    A 19th century oil lamp at Victor Mee’s timed online sale. UPDATE: THE CLOSING BID WAS €26

    With €400 or even much less it will be possible to pick up a prized piece at Victor Mee’s timed auction of ceramics, glass and collectibles which ends from 5.30 pm tomorrow on August 10. A 19th century brass and ruby glass Corinthian column oil lamp has a starting bid of just €120, a ruby glass epergne starts at €80 and a figure of Scarlett from Coalport’s Literary Heroines series at just €100.

    The auction offers figures by Royal Doulton, Lladro, Royal Worcester, Coalport, Franklin, Royal Minton, Staffordshire, Capodimonte and Hummel, there is spongeware and Belleek, Galway, Cavan and Waterford Crystal, Swarovski, ruby and cherry glass, various tea and part dinner services, Oriental zodiac cups, a Chinese lidded jar, vases, ornaments and even a Japanese lacquered wall plaque.  Maybe fine dining at home will make a comeback.  Until then pieces like many of the lots in this sale offer huge value.

    A Coalport figurine of Scarlett  UPDATE: THE CLOSING BID WAS €9

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    SET THE IMAGINATION FREE AT THIS SALE BY VICTOR MEE

    Saturday, July 19th, 2025

    A set of vintage wishbone Danish dining chairs. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD

    Danish wishbone chairs, bronze boxing hares, a 19th century French oak refectory table and a Black Forest musical chair are included among nearly 1,000 lots at online evening sales by Victor Mee on July 22-23.

    There is nothing in this eclectic selection to prevent the imagination of a collector from soaring to new and unexplored heights.  Where to place a pair of cast iron pier caps in the form of a stag standing on a ball?  Maybe not to the taste of  everyone but they can be yours for an estimated €1,000-€2,000.  There is a similar estimate on a fine sturdy three seater cast iron garden bench, a pair of moulded sandstone lifesize models of Great Danes and a pair of 19th century wrought iron entrance gates.

    French wrought iron glasshouse. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Hand cut granite gate posts, a 19th century sandstone trough, a wrought iron portable glasshouse, a pair of sandstone lattice urns and an early 20th century French wrought iron greenhouse are all on offer.

    A 19th century brass bound campaign chest (€1,400-€1,800), a French William IV centre table with marble top (€800-€1,200), a 19th century lime washed oak chest (€600-€1,200), a walnut inlaid credenza with three glazed doors (€400-€800), a Regency rent table with leather top (€400-€800), a Victorian rosewood and satinwood inlaid side table (€350-€650), a pair of Art Deco bedside lockers (€350-€650) and a bank of four graduated drawers in the shape of drums €300-€600) are included among nearly 400 lots of furniture with estimates of from a little as €10 for an Edwardian three tier cake stand.

    A set of eight vintage Danish wishbone dining chairs with woven rush seats carry an estimate of €1,000-€2,000.  A 19th century Black Forest rosewood and burr walnut musical chair and table is slightly more expensive, at €1,500-€2,500.  This inlaid furniture contains a hidden musical box.

    Black Forest musical chair and table. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,000 AT HAMMER

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    LARGEST PIECE OF MARS ON EARTH MAKES MILLIONS

    Thursday, July 17th, 2025

    The Largest Piece of Mars on Earth

    A Martian meteorite discovered in November 2023 in Niger, Africa, sold for $5,296,000 at Sotheby’s in New York. The largest piece of Mars on earth was ejected by a massive asteroid strike. It journeyed 140 million miles through space and finally the earth’s atmosphere before crashing into the Sahara Desert. Pieces of Mars are rare. Of more than 77,000 officially recognised meteorites only 400 are Martian. Weighing 24.67 kilograms this one represents approximately 6.5% of all Martian material currently known.

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    CHRISTIE’S PROJECTS AUCTION SALES OF $2.1 BILLION FOR FIRST SIX MONTHS OF 2025

    Wednesday, July 16th, 2025

    Piet Mondrian – Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue 

    Auction house Christie’s has projected auction sales of $2.1 billion in the first half of 2025. Piet Mondrian’s Composition with Large Red Plane, Bluish Gray, Yellow, Black and Blue from the Leonard & Louise Riggio Collection sold for $47.6 million to become most valuable work of art sold at auction so far. Key performance indicators, including overall sell through rate at 88% and hammer versus the low estimate index at 115%, have all showed strength and demonstrated the market leadership of Christie’s. The global auction house sold seven of the top 10 artworks and all top four works of art sold at auction in the six months. In addition, overall auction sales in the leading 20/21 category were stable to last year at $1.3 billion. Luxury sales were up 29%, which includes car sales at Gooding Christie’s (up 12% without Gooding Christie’s).  In Jewels, Christie’s sold nine of the top 10 jewels at auction in the first half of the year. This has driven growth of 25%. The Old Master Group drove a 15% rise in auction sales in the first half of the year. Confidence for this continued momentum in the second half has been demonstrated by the record breaking $43.9 million sale in London of Canaletto’s masterpiece Venice, the Return of the Bucintoro on Ascension Day.

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    BRONZE FIGURE MAKES MORE THAN 10 TIMES THE LOW ESTIMATE AT SHEPPARDS

    Tuesday, July 15th, 2025

    18TH-CENTURY SINO-TIBETAN GILT BRONZE FIGURE OF A MANJUSHRI

    This finely cast 18th century Sino-Tibetan gilt bronze made a hammer price of €9,500 over an estimate of €800-€1,200 at Sheppards two day sale of the collection of Philip and Constance Murphy in Durrow today. The figure of a Manjushri,  the bodhisattva of transcendent wisdom, is seated in the meditation position atop a double-lotus throne with beaded rims. It is richly adorned with beaded jewellery and a five-pointed crown, with detailed facial expression and blue pigment remaining in the hair and crown crevices. A folder of 24 Chinese Qing watercolours made €14,000, a Chinese Qing period Hu shaped vase made €7,650 at hammer, a 19th century oil painting of a volcanic eruption by moonlight made €7,500, a 19th century marine chronometer made €5,400, a Chinese Qing Period blue dragon plate made €5,000, an Arts and Crafts carpet made €4,300, a 19th century automaton bird clock under a glass dome made €4,000 at hammer, a Persian Tabriz carpet made €4,200, an 18th century Dublin bracket clock made €3,600, a trio of Chinese gold commemorative coins made €2,800 and a Chinese lime glazed bowl made €2,800.

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    FRENCH 19TH CENTURY STEEL AND BRASS TABLE AT MULLENS

    Monday, July 14th, 2025

    19th century French polished steel and brass centre table. UPDATE: THE CLOSING BID WAS 3,000

    This white veined marble topped table is the leading lot at Mullen’s of Laurel Park timed online Classic and Contemporary Interiors auction which runs in Bray until July 20. The marble rests on a pierced foliate cast frieze on scroll supports. The estimate is €3,000-€4,000. The catalogue lists over 650 lots and is online.

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