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A virtual event organised by Hibernian Antique Fairs is taking place this weekend. More than 700 items including jewellery, furniture, collectibles and art from a variety of dealers are available online. To attend just click on the link https://hibernianantiquescom.wordpress.com/virtual-fair-2/
The Cork Antiques Fair at the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel on February 2 marks 30 years of this fair in Cork. Organised by Hibernian Antiques Fairs this is always a crowd puller. Dealers from around Ireland will attend with everything from antique furniture, Irish art, silver, jewellery, vintage fashion and one off collectibles. Cork based stamp dealer Padraig O’Shea of Raven Stamps has offered an interesting illustration as follows:
The National Antiques Fair at the South Court Hotel in LImerick on November 9 and 10 justifiably claims to be Ireland’s biggest antiques, art and vintage fair by far. While other fairs have got smaller this one has got bigger and attracts customers from all over Ireland and beyond. The closure of so many antique shops accounts for this growth as numerous dealers now find it more economical to trade at fairs rather than maintain a presence on the street.
While this is a pity there is an upside. Hibernian Antique Fairs say this fair will be full to the rafters with antique shops and dealers and art dealers and galleries. Many of these are members of the Irish Antique Dealers Association who exhibit at the RDS fair every September. Another reason for Limerick’s success is that this is a fair that caters for all tastes and all pockets. Opening times are from 11 am to 6 pm on each day.
Charles and Sarah Vivian will bring this extremely rare advertising sign to the antique fair at the Silver Springs Hotel in Cork on February 3. The sign comes complete with several bullet holes. Measuring four feet by three feet it pre-dates the advent of the telephone and may have been on the building at 33 Bachelor’s Walk in Dublin when it was attacked during the Easter Rising in 1916.
The building two doors east of 33 Bachelor’s Walk on the corner of Sackville St. was Kelly’s Fishing Tackle and Gunpowder shop. This became known at Kelly’s Fort as it was occupied by Volunteer Captain Peader Bracken and ten men who were shot and shelled at form the direction of Trinity College. Wallis’s, whose number is listed as Dublin 392 in the 1913 telephone directory, made a successful claim for damages after the Rising and received £107-4-10.
The National Antiques and Vintage Fair takes place at the South Court Hotel in Limerick on November 10 and 11. More than 80 dealers from all around Ireland, North and South, will be in attendance.
They will display antique furniture, art, jewellery, silver, porcelain, banknotes, vintage fashion and accessories and all sort of collectible items. Organisers Hibernian Antique Fairs say that this is the biggest gathering of antique dealers anywhere in Ireland.
Opening times are from 11 am to 6 pm on both days. Hibernian Antique Fairs organises regular Sunday fairs up and down the country but this is one of their largest annual events. It is always a very popular outing and a huge crowd puller.
Turquoise and pearl brooch at Weldons
Mark O’Neill – Cottage Green at Treasures Irish Art
Victorian dining table and chairs
A 19th century Chinese export covered dish
Hibernian Antique Fairs will bring what is billed as the Ist Dublin Antique, Art and Vintage fair to the Talbot Hotel, Stillorgan on October 15-16. More than 70 dealers from Ireland and abroad including 12 Irish Antique Dealers Association members. two London jewellery dealers and two jewellery dealers from Germany will be in attendance. Among those exhibiting are 20 dealers from around Ireland who have not shown in Dublin before. There will be art, antique furniture, silver, jewellery, vintage items, fashion, glass, ceramics and an array of collectibles. Opening times are from 11 am to 6 pm on both days.
There will be art ceramics by Clarice Cliff.
Weldon’s will bring this pair of George II Irish candlesticks made in Dublin around 1745 by John Moore. They are priced at 4,500.
A shamrock brooch.
It is that time of year again and for the first time this year Hibernian Antique Fairs will hit town from the annual Rose of Tralee festival. The first Rose of Tralee Antiques Art & Vintage Fair takes place at The Earl of Desmond Hotel on August 20 and 21. Opening times are from 2 p.m. to 8 p.m. on August 20 and 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. on August 21. There will be 40 antique shops, dealers, gallery’s and vintage dealers from around Ireland in attendance. Among them will be Treasures Irish Art Athlone (IADA), Marie Curran Jewellery Dublin (IADA), Greene’s Antique Furniture Drogheda (IADA), Billy Harnett Furniture Co.Limerick, Robert Delahunty Fine Art, Clonakilty, Co.Cork, Tara Crystal Chandeliers, Co.Waterford, Richard Walshe Coins & Banknotes Co.Galway, EIly Henry, Vintage Fashion, Co.Waterford and Sheila Poots, China & Porcelain Belfast.
There will be a focus on furniture at the Cork National Antiques Art and Vintage fair at the Clayton Silver Springs Hotel on February 6 and 7. Dealers from around Ireland, north and south, will be in attendance with everything from Cork silver spoons to netsuke to bog oak, jewellery, silver, art, coins and bank notes. Among the furniture dealers are Greenes Antiques, Drogheda; William Hartnett, Limerick; Black Horse Antiques of Milltown, Co. Kerry; Castle Antiques, Buttevant; Bridgend Antiques, Belfast; Colman O’Kelly, Co. Limerick and Donegal Antiques. Coin and banknote dealer Richard Walshe, back from the Miami Fair, will attend. This annual two day event is always a big draw. Here is a small selection of what to expect:
A 19th century rosewood and thuya wood bonheur du jour with original ormolu mounts.
A bog oak sculpture – Dante’s Inferno – by Stephen Costello
Cork silver spoons by Carden Terry.
An inlaid 19th century table.
A collection of Japanese items.
The Abbey The Castle of Askeaton from T. Staffords Pacata Hibernia 1633
A demantoid and diamond brooch in the shape of a shamrock
A pair of Cork silver buckles by John Warner c1785
Erskine Nicholl (1825-1904) – Fr. Tom and Myles from Boucicault’s The Colleen Bawn
