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Advertising posters for various brands of cigarette were once a common sight throughout Ireland. They have vanished in the 21st century. This one comes up as lot 38 with an estimate of 60-100 at R.J. Keighery’s online sale of the contents of the Munster Bar, The Mall, Waterford on February 9. A total of 196 lots will be offered.
Antique furniture, mirrors, rugs, jewellery, silver, paintings, porcelain and collectibles will come under the hammer at a two day sale by Matthews in Kells, Co. Meath on June 27 and 28. Estimates are reasonable and the auction offers good value. There are 1,113 lots with various bidding options, including Easy Live Auctions.
There will be a live online auction by Matthews of Oldcastle, Co. Meath at 6 pm on June 9. On offer are 541 lots including some value jewellery, watches, old silver and a few Russian collectibles, gold coins and Oriental pieces. The catalogue is online and the sale is on Easy Live auctions.
Doneraile based Aidan Foley, who quickly moved to an online only model when the pandemic lockdown began in Ireland, will hold a two day sale on May 30 and 31. Around 350 lots are to come under the hammer on each day. He reports that successful online auctions make more work for the auctioneers. There is more demand for pre-sale reports and afterwards lots have to be packaged and despatched, sometimes crated. One lot from his sale at the beginning of May went to Sri Lanka and buyers and collectors registered from around the globe.
The upcoming auctions on easy live will include boxed sets of promotional discs sent to RTE’s Lorcan Murray. Items from his extensive collection of rock and pop memorabilia have already featured at several of Aidan Foley’s auctions and garnered much interest. Another upcoming lot certain to arouse great interest is a pencil sketch of a river scene by John Butler Yeats estimated at €800-1,200. It is from an artists sketch book purchased at a Yeats family dispersal auction.
Bob Marley’s last ever outdoor concert was at Dalymount Park in Dublin in 1980. An original poster for that event is included in Aidan Foley’s live internet auction of 283 lots on Monday April 13. The poster for an afternoon in the park on Sunday, July 6 of that year lists Bob Marley and The Wailers with special guests The Average White Band. Lot 102 is estimated at 1,000-1,200 on Easy Live Auctions.
Marley’s last concert was at the Stanley Theatre in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania in September 1980. He had been diagnosed with malignant melanoma in 1977 and at this stage it had spread to his brain. He died in May 1981.
UPDATE: THE POSTER MADE 1,150 AT HAMMER
