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A collection of four Fox head stirrup cups will be a feature at the sale at Cork Auction Rooms on December 28.  Such cups are rare and of interest to specialist collectors.  One sold for 1,500 at Cork Auction Rooms two years ago. On offer this time is a pair of  Fox Head form stirrup cups and a  pair of Victorian Staffordshire stirrup cups in the form of fox hounds.  Each pair is estimated at 600-1,200.  A pair of Jack B. Yeats pen and ink cartoons and letters to his sister Susan  – “Two Dublin debutants exercising themselves close by O’ Connell Bridge” and “The turnip sculptor” – are estimated at 6,000-8,000.  A c1835 Georgian Irish mahogany sideboard with acanthus leaf decoration on barley twist supports is estimated at 1,800-2,500 and the sale will feature a selection miniature portraits and silhouettes.