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    A KINSALE SILVER SPOON AND A SET OF TAIN LITHOGRAPHS

    Thursday, September 19th, 2024

    EXTREMELY RARE KINSALE TABLESPOON by John Wall c1720. UPDATE: THIS MADE 4,200 AT HAMMER

    Kinsale silver is desperately hard to come by so there is some excitement around this extremely rare c1720 tablespoon by John Wall. It comes up as lot 119 at a sale of four collections by de Veres in association with Aidan Foley in Dublin on September 24. The estimate is €1,000-€2,000. The auction is on view at Kildare St. from today and the catalogue is online. The 216 lots comprise four different collections of silver, stamps and coins, art and books. Among more than 120 lots of silver is this rare tablespoon and a 1701 Dublin tankard by Thomas Bolton. Coins and sovereigns include a 1943 Florin, there is a collection of stamps from 1949 to 2023 and a complete set of The Tain lithographs by Louis le Brocquy. UPDATE: An Irish William III silver tankard by Thomas Bolton made 6,000 at hammer and an Irish George I silver tankard by Joseph Walker made 8,000 at hammer. The Tain lithographs were unsold.

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    KINSALE SILVER MARROW SCOOP SELLS FOR £8,000

    Tuesday, April 9th, 2019

    What was possibly a world record price for a piece of Kinsale flatware silver was scored at auction at Lawrences sale of silver and vertu at Crewkerne in Somerset, England today. A c1730 marrow scoop by William and/or Joseph Wall Kinsale sold for £8,000 at hammer over an estimate of £2,500-3,500. The scoop has an engraved crest below another crest and a Baron’s coronet.

    This Kinsale silver marrow scoop sold for a hammer price of £8,000

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    A KINSALE SILVER BOWL WITH ALMOST MYTHICAL STATUS

    Tuesday, March 15th, 2016

    The Kinsale Silver bowl

    The Kinsale Silver bowl

    A Kinsale silver bowl with an almost mythical status has surfaced with well known silver dealer William Crofton of L and W Duvallier, Dublin and London. A second generation dealer of 40 years standing Crofton said the piece – made by Robert Armstrong around 1750 – is the rarest provincial bowl he has ever had.

    “It is very hard to describe the feeling you get when you see such a fantastic piece out of the blue. I believe only enthusiast’s or collectors regardless of what they collect can truly relate to it” he said.  “As I turned the bowl over it was like time stood still and it took me an extra couple of seconds for my brain to workout exactly what I was looking at. It is the only time I have ever come across this maker in real life in nearly 40 years”.
    There are less than six pieces known to have been made by Robert Armstrong. The definitive work on Cork Silversmiths by John Bowen with Conor O’Brien makes the point that Kinsale’s ancient significance derived from its position as the most important sea port on the southern coast of Ireland. A nearly identical bowl by Robert Armstrong is illustrated in Irish Georgian Silver by Douglas Bennett.  Bowls of this type of different sizes were made throughout Ireland in the first half of the 18th century as speciality items.  This one is on offer with a price tag of around 45,000 euro.

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    ONLY KNOWN PAIR OF KINSALE SILVER TREFID SPOONS

    Saturday, March 5th, 2016

    A pair of Kinsale silver trefid spoons.

    A pair of Kinsale silver trefid spoons.

    The only known pair of Kinsale trefid spoons will feature at Weldon’s stand at the National Antiques and Vintage Fair at the South Court Hotel in Limerick on March 19 and 20. By Joseph and William Wall they were made c1695-1705 and are real rarities.  Trefid spoons are flat handled with a stem that widens at the top with two notches that form a shape with three lobes.  Irish provincial silver is much rarer than Dublin silver. Antique Kinsale silver pieces are prized by collectors.  Weldons say it is likely that they were owned by the Daunt family of Tracton Abbey near Kinsale.

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