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    AGRICULTURAL BYGONES TOP THE BILL AT CO. CAVAN SALE

    Saturday, October 22nd, 2022
    Field Marshall 1947 tractor  UPDATE: THIS MADE 12,500 AT HAMMER

    Aidan Foley’s sale of Agricultural Bygones in Cavan next Monday and Tuesday will attract enthusiastic collectors of a different sort.  He anticipates more interest in collectible lots like vintage tractors,  a four wheeled horse drawn carriage, mill stones, Coalbrookedale garden seats, nostalgic enamel signs, antique hammers, old road signs, ploughs, iron gates, scales, wringers, skillets than for much of the antique furniture at auction nowadays.  Memorabilia is big business. There is a large and varied selection of 1,308 lots which long time collector Tommy Shannon has amassed over seven decades and is selling due to illness. The sale is on view at Shannon’s Yard near Killeshandra today and tomorrow and the auction is to take place at MacSeains Pub, Cornafean, Co. Cavan. The catalogue is online.