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    HOW ABOUT A 1914 TURQUOISE BUICK TOURER?

    Saturday, November 8th, 2025

    A 1914 Buick Tourer at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    An eyecatching turquoise tourer, rare antique jade pieces and a  walnut chest on chest are among the choices available at auction now.  The chest on chest is at Woodwards in Cork today (November 8) with an estimate of €1,000-€1,500). A carved walnut breakfast table with a similar estimate is also on offer here.

    The 1914 Buick Tourer in fine condition is among the leading lights at Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill on November 15. Contents from several Cork residences and two newly closed businesses, Canty’s Garage and the Cotton Ball pub ensure that there will be no shortage of local interest in this sale.

    With everything from stuffed moose heads with antlers (€100-€200) to a bottle of Midleton Whiskey from the old West Cork Bottling Company in Bandon (€200-€300), a large old Murphy’s Stout and Porter sign and The Cork Cup from 1925, a greyhound trophy, there is plenty for collectors to browse over.

    A pair of Satsuma vases at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: THESE MADE 550 AT HAMMER

    The auction offers jewellery, clocks, mirrors, Cork dining chairs and other furniture, a selection of antique oil lamps, two five branch Waterford Crystal chandeliers, a pair of Satsuma vases and a 1940 portrait of the Cork businessman and founder of Sunbeam Wolsey William Dwyer (1887-1951) by Sean O’Sullivan.

    Along with the Buick (€15,000-€20,000) rarities include two old Lady Lavery £10 notes from 1972 with printing errors.  The estimate is €3,000-€4,000.  Viewing from 10 am to 5 pm daily gets underway today (November 8). 

    A rare pale and black jade bear at Adams. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    With estimates from €80 (for an ashtray netsuke stag horn) to €80,000 for a large Buddhist temple painting or thangka the sale of fine Asian art at James Adam next Wednesday (November 12) is now on view in Dublin. There are rare antique jades like a celadon tiger face from the Western Zhou dynasty c1100-771 BC (€1,000-€1,200), lots of porcelain, enamels, cloisonne wares, fans, paintings, furniture, carpets, bronze plaques, carved ornaments and ivory, pendants, folding screens and masks among more than 400 lots.

    The sale kicks off with four figures of seated Buddhist lions.  From the Yongzheng  period in China c1725 they are estimated at just €200-€300. The auction has already been on view in Paris.  It is on weekend view at Adams at St. Stephen’s Green, Dublin from 1 pm to 5 pm today and tomorrow and from 10 am to 5 pm on Monday and Tuesday.

    In Cork Woodwards has a good selection of antique furniture  including a harlequin set of Cork chairs, a Victorian secretaire, a Georgian inlaid cellarette, a French bonheur du jour and a Victorian three tier dumb waiter. There is a set of 17 portraits of figures from The Rising by Rod Coyne. Other lots of note include a large Kashan carpet, a mounted Greenland goose and a large cast iron garden seat.  All catalogues are online.

    A Georgian walnut chest on chest at Woodwards. UPDATE: THIS MADE 525 AT HAMMER

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    WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE MY PICASSO ETCHING?

    Saturday, August 23rd, 2025

    Pablo Picasso (Spanish 1881-1973) Jeune couple accroupi, l’homme avec un tambourin at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: THIS MADE 5,000 AT HAMMER

    A marine chronometer, a Picasso etching, a c1730 bureau bookcase or a modern burr poplar and satinwood side cabinet inlaid with mother of pearl? The choice is yours at upcoming sales at James Adam in Dublin on Wednesday August 27 and Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork next Saturday (August 30).

    The etching of a young couple by Picasso is the top lot at Lynes and Lynes. Published by Vollard in Paris in 1939 and signed in pencil from an edition of 260 it is from a private source in Cork. The estimate is €5,000-€8,000.  Lynes and Lynes will offer three ships chronometers, one by Whyte Thompson and Co., makers to the admiralty, Glasgow (€900-€1,200), another by Thomas Mercer (€700-€1,000) and a third manufactured by the First Watch Company, Moscow (€300-€500).

    A c1730 bureau bookcase at James Adam. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

    Antique furniture is more difficult to sell nowadays. A c1730  bureau bookcase at the At Home sale at Adams might break the mould.  Capable of lending grace and utility to many modern homes it comes with twin mirrored panel doors, a fall front, desk, shelves and drawers and measures just 103 cms wide.  The estimate is €1,500-€3,000.  By way of contrast an inlaid demi lune side cabinet by Restall Brown & Clennell at Adams is a modern piece with an estimate of €2,000-€3,000.

    With nearly 900 lots in total each sale offers a wide variety of lots at affordable price points, online catalogues and in person viewing.

    Marine chronometers at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: THESE MADE 1,300, 850 AND 260

    Lynes and Lynes will include contents from the recently sold Montenotte House and lots from the estate of late surgeon Tom Burke and his wife Kay of Blackrock, Cork.  There are tables to choose from including a large 19th century dining table, a Cork Regency tea table and a Georgian wine table. There are Cork 9-bar chairs and Arts and Crafts dining chairs, a Cork Regency linen press and a fine painted cabinet.  The sale offers silver and jewellery, a specialist collection of antique continental dolls and old advertising signs including one for the Metropole Hotel in Cork.  Viewing gets underway in Carrigtwohill today and continues all next week.

    A pair of red ground 19th century Chinese silk scroll wall hangings and a George V silver epergne feature among the lots adding interest to the At Home sale by James Adam in Dublin. The auction offers silver, furniture, a longcase clock, paintings, a 19th century gilt surround continental headboard, sofas, rugs, lamps, mirrors and an Irish silver Art Deco style three piece coffee service.

    A c1960 Louis Vuitton train vanity case at James Adam. UPDATE: THIS MADE 460 at hammer

    Or how about a Louis Vuitton c1960 train vanity case identified as reference model M23820 (€500-€800), a 20th century Aubusson style needlepoint tapestry,  an Anglo-Indian carved ebony side chair or a brass dinner gong? 

    Auctions like these offer endless variety and objects to suit all tastes.  Go on. Be inspired….

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    AUCTION BY LYNES AND LYNES ON AUGUST 30

    Monday, August 18th, 2025

    Cork Regency tea table. UPDATE: THIS MADE 750 AT HAMMER

    The sale at Lynes and Lynes on August 30 features contents from the sales of two large houses in Cork city. There is furniture, silver, jewellery, old advertising signs and an unusual collection of antique dolls from Germany, Holland, Belgium, France and two Steiff dachshunds.  The catalogue is online.

    Antique dolls at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: A NUMBER OF DOLLS SOLD FOR FROM 90 TO 190 AT HAMMER

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    ART, FURNITURE AND COLLECTIBLES AT CORK AUCTIONS

    Saturday, May 17th, 2025

    Mid 19th century Irish dining table and 12 Cork chairs at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: The table made €3,400 at hammer, the chairs were unsold.

    Artworks from the estate of Brian Looney, former editor of the Irish Examiner, are included in the Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill on May 24.  The auction offers boardroom furniture from the Dulux factory in Cork, established in 1885 by the Harrington family. Lot 228 is a folder with correspondence between Michael Collins, then Minister for Finance, and Genoa based Donal Hales, Irish consul for Italy from 1919 and brother of assassinated Cork TD Sean Hales.

    Artworks include Meeting of the Currachs by Ciaran Clear and a signed lithograph by the American artist Frank Stella. A mid 19th century dining table is estimated at €4,000-€6,000 and a set of 12 Cork 11-bar chairs at €3,500-€4,500.  There is jewellery including a platinum and diamond three stone ring, a 1950’s childs penny farthing bicycle and a church bell made by James Atkins, Cork c1810 believed to be from St. Mary’s Church in Cobh.

    The auction by Woodwards in Cork next Saturday offers antique furniture including a Georgian chest on chest, a George II card table, a pair of Edwardian demi-lune tables, an Edwardian parquetry table and a set of Cork chairs.  There is a pair of cast iron garden seats by Pierce of Wexford, a model of a three masted schooner and a selection of porcelain, glassware, rugs and mirrors.  Both auctions are on view from May 17 and the catalogues are online.

    A parquetry inlaid table at Woodwards sale. UPDATE: This made 240 at hammer.

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    AN HISTORIAN’S LIBRARY AT LYNES AND LYNES

    Sunday, April 20th, 2025

    A complete set of the Journals of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society. UPDATE: THIS MADE 550 AT HAMMER.

    A complete set of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society Journals from 1892-2024, the catalogue for the auction of contents from Bowen’s Court in North Cork by Marshs on April 20-21 in 1960 and 42 copies of the Hibernian Chronicle newspaper, Cork in 1789-1790 are among the treasures to be found at Lynes and Lynes on April 26.

    On auction is the private library of 95 year old historian Richard Hinchion who spent a lifetime recording gravestone inscriptions and collecting books.  There are four volumes on Buttevant, Castletownroche, Doneraile and Mallow by Col. James Grove White along with copies of The Sinn Fein Rebellion Handbook and The Resurrection of Hungary by Arthur Griffith.  A plentiful selection of sporting material includes GAA programmes from the 1940’s.  Viewing is underway at Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill and continues until next Friday from 10 am to 5 pm each day.  The catalogue is online.

    Two All Ireland Hurling Championship programmes from 1954 and 1956 UPDATE: THESE MADE 240 AT HAMMER

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    AN OLD SPANISH OIL PAINTING AT LYNES AND LYNES

    Wednesday, November 27th, 2024

    This old Spanish painting – The Virgin and Child distributing the Rosary to Saints and the Royal Family – comes up at Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill, Co. Cork on November 30. The oil on canvas is estimated at 1,000-1,500. The auction comprises lots from estates including Gurrane near Fermoy and Ballydowney House, Killarney. The catalogue is online and this is lot 95 out of 414 lots.

    UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,100 AT HAMMER

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    ARRAY OF RARE CHOICES AT SALES IN IRELAND NEXT WEEK

    Saturday, November 23rd, 2024

    19th century Killarney wood breakfast table at Aidan Foley’s sale  UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD AND IS UNDER OFFER

    With big sales by Aidan Foley in Killarney, Shepperds in Durrow and Lynes and Lynes in Carrigtwohill next week collectors will be spoiled by an array of astonishing and rare choices as the winter selling season reaches it maximum point.

    There is much to see and appreciate, from the finest of Irish furniture to a complete apothecary cabinet, a bronze stag, Patek Philippe and Rolex watches and even a Great Seal of Ireland of Henry VIII on vellum dated 1544.

    The Killarney furniture including a museum quality davenport at Aidan Foley’s three day sale has aroused international interest.  The retirement  auction on behalf of Pat O’Connor of Killarney Antiques is now on view at the shop on the Cork road.  The in-room and online auction with 1388 lots takes place at the Killarney Heights Hotel next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 2.30 pm on each day.

    A Killarney breakfast table, two davenports and a sewing table range in estimate from €3,000 to €50,000.  There is a selection of Killarney trinket boxes, games boards, trays and travelling writing boxes on offer as well as antique furniture, a range of artists from Marshall Hutson to Maurice Wilks, Ann Tallentire and Sean O’Connor, mirrors, porcelain and collectibles including a 19th century estate bronze bell and an original Cork Examiner enamel advertising sign.

    A pair of Meissen figural candelabras a Sheppards. UPDATE: THESE WERE UNSOLD

    At Sheppards a pair of Irish 19th century marquetry side cabinets once in the Long Room at Kilkenny Castle will highlight a three day sale of contents from Grange Manor in Co. Kilkenny and other clients next Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. The estimate for this historically important pair of cabinets sold separately at the dispersal auction at the castle in 1935 is €100,000-€150,000.

    The seal of Henry VIII grants various properties around Inistioge including fishing rights on the River Nore to Milo Barron Bishop of Ossory and his brother David. The estimate is €7,000-€9,000.  More than 1600 lots will come under the hammer.  Viewing gets underway today at Grange Manor, the auction is in Durrow and online.

    A Patek Philippe man’s watch with an estimate of €50,000-€80,000 will lead the Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill next Saturday (November 30).  There are contents from Gurrane House near Fermoy which has been in the Blackley, Grant and Deane families since it was built in 1850.  A collection of circus clowns in the auction (€2,500-€3,500) was amassed by a clown at Duffy’s. Circus and is being sold by his nephew. A set of fine Georgian Cork 11-bar chairs (€4,000-€5,000) and a Georgian dining table (€3,000-€4,000) should generate interest.

    A going away outfit dating to c1850 at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: THIS MADE 460 AT HAMMER

    Large old family houses contain hidden treasures.  Among the signature pieces from Gurrane is a complete 19th century mahogany apothecary cabinet (€600-€1,000) owned by Dr. Travers Robert Blackley (1801-1876) and an 1850 going away outfit..  This was worn by Mrs Charles Deane (nee Grant), who  married Colonel Charles Deane of Gurrane circa 1850. A Spanish School painting of The Virgin and  Child distributing the Rosary to Saints and the Royal Family is estimated at €1,000-€1,500. There is a similar estimate on a Plan of the City and Suburbs of Cork drawn in 1832 by Thomas Holt.  There will be local interest too in a Robert Stopford engraving of Cork Harbour and a large view of the Cork International Exhibition from 1903.  Viewing gets underway in Carrigtwohill today.

    The bronze stag is at Aidan Foley’s auction and there is garden furniture on offer at all three sales.

    A close up of some of the clown collection at Lynes and Lynes. UPDATE: THE CLOWN COLLECTION MADE 3,100 AT HAMMER

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    THE CORK COLLECTION OF AN ARCHITECT AT LYNES AND LYNES

    Sunday, September 22nd, 2024

    A pair of Cork lithographs by Robert L Stopford (1813-1898)  UPDATE: THE PAIR MADE 460 AT HAMMER

    A set of rare Cork 8-bar dining chairs, a pair of lithographs by Robert Stopford of The Cork River from Fota Park and Cork Harbour from Spy Hill, an early lithograph of Cork Opera House and a collection of drawings including one of St. Multose Church in Kinsale from the estate of late architect Bill Murphy of Coolim, Castle Road, Blackrock, Cork will feature at Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtwohill on September 28.

    A landscape by William Sadler II leads a large collection of pictures from this house. A c1690 English walnut and marquetry longcase clock by John Bates, Atherstone, an Irish rosewood duet music stand by Williams and Gibton, an Omega De Ville gold wristwatch made for the American market, an antique brass fire grate, terracotta garden pots and a collection of Dinky toys are included. Among lots from other estates in the sale are an antique oak filing cabinet and a Churchill 22 carat gold commemorative medal along with a selection of jewellery, coins, glassware, books and collectibles.  UPDATE: THE CHURCHILL COMMEMORATIVE MEDAL MADE €6,800 AT HAMMER

    An English c1690 walnut and marquetry inlaid longcase clock UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER

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    REALITY CHECK REVEALS HUGE VALUE TO BE HAD IN ANTIQUE FURNITURE

    Monday, August 12th, 2024

    This Empire style pier table made €160 at Adams in June.

    Beautiful, green, sustainable and unwanted …. good antique furniture continues to offer spectacular value to consumers.  Armed with just €100 euro you can pick something up at many sales. The choice widens considerably with €300, €500 or €1,000. Disinclined to believe me?  There are lots of examples from auctions in the first half of the year in Ireland as follows:

    An Empire style circular pier table with brass sphinx head capitals sold for a hammer price of just €160 at the last At Home sale at James Adam in Dublin in June.  At the same auction a 19th century circular convex mirror surmounted by an eagle with outstretched wings made €320, a Victorian walnut and parquetry games table made €130 and a Victorian mahogany hall chair made €170.

    This George III bureau made €150 at Sheppards in May.

    At Sheppards Great Irish Interiors sale in May a 19th century pine pedestal plant stand made €50 at hammer, an Irish 19th century drop leaf kitchen table made €90, a George III mahogany wash stand made €160 and a George III writing bureau sold for €150.

    At Woodwards in Cork in April an Edwardian occasional table on tripod base made €40, a Victorian Sutherland table made €90, a Victorian chest on stand made €120 and a Victorian lowboy with herringbone crossbanding made €140. At Marshs in June a two tier centre table made €40, a French escritoire made €120 and a Victorian lady’s work table made €160.

    This Victorian lowboy made €140 at Woodwards in April.

    An Edwardian oak hall stand made €90 at Lynes and Lynes in April, a Victorian dressing table made €100, an antique side table made €160, a Victorian circular dining table made €50 and a Victorian dumb waiter made €140.

    An Edwardian four tier waterfall what not sold for €40 at Fonsie Mealy in February, while at an auction in Castlecomer in May a Georgian glazed bookcase made €210, a Pembroke table made €170 and a Victorian walnut lady’s work table made €180.

    The late Cork auctioneer Joe Woodward once remarked that: “There is a bargain at every auction”. That was then and this is now. When it comes to good serviceable antique furniture that has already given years of service and is ready for much more many bargains can be found at every sale nowadays.  The prices quoted here are hammer prices and do not include auctioneers fees, but fees on €100 euro do not amount to much.  Some auctioneers will even refuse to accept  some furniture for sale.  Who can blame them?  When pieces do not attract any bids and are unsold they must be returned and carriage costs money.

    This Victorian dining table made €50 euro at Lynes and Lynes in April.

    Not everything is unwanted.  Some furniture is sought after and some particularly good pieces make lots of money.  Just last October a pair of c1760 George II carved giltwood armchairs, one with a Strahan label, made $152,400 (€139,949) at Sotheby’s in New York. It helps when something is exceptional, with impeccable provenance and preferably a celebrity owner or two.

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    AUCTION AT LYNES AND LYNES IS FULL OF INTEREST

    Monday, July 1st, 2024

    An antique gramophone with wooden horn UPDATE: THIS MADE 420 AT HAMMER

    With everything from a fine old Cork clock in need of full restoration and seascapes by Erwin Charles Gunther to an antique oak cased gramophone and a pair of Chinese Foo dogs modelled as lamps the sale at Lynes and Lynes on July 6 is brimful of specialist interest.

    Viewing is underway in Carrigtwohill for a 372 lot auction made up of the remaining part of the estate of the late Roma Peare (nee Knox) of Kinsale, a residence at Templenoe, Kenmare, Co. Kerry and a house at Beaumont Avenue in Cork.  A collection of old cameras is another feature. 

    A Cork clock by James Aickin UPDATE: THIS MADDE 360 AT HAMMER

    A clock by James Aickin does not come up at auction every day. This longcase brass dial clock by one of the most eminent Cork clockmakers needs much attention and is estimated accordingly at just €300-€500.  Aickin was a prominent Freemason active from 1738-1780 at a time when Cork was a major Atlantic port with extensive trade links to many European countries.  Among his commissions was “repairing and putting up” the town clock in Youghal in 1777 for which £8 was set aside for him by the Corporation of Youghal.  He manufactured both bracket clocks and long case clocks.  One of his sons, George, became a clockmaker with premises at James St. adjacent to the Cork Courthouse, a centre for clockmaking in Cork before the advent of mass production. Other clocks include a table clock retailed by Mangan, Cork  (€400-€500.), an Irish longcase clock by Robert Fishbourne, Carlow (€1,500-€2,000) and a French painted wood and ormolu Cartel clock (€1,500-€2,000).

     A selection of lots on offer

    The German artist Erwin Charles Gunther (1864-1927) is known for his seascapes and there are two of them in the sale, each estimated at €600-€1,000.  A set of four William Harrington prints of Cork, each signed by the artist , are each estimated at €60-€100.

    Collectors will be interested in an antique gramophone on a carved oak case, complete with a rare wooden horn and in full working order (€300-€500).  Chinese Foo dogs are both popular and auspicious. Designed in pairs, male and female, they represent yin and yang.  The female yin protects those dwelling in the home, the male yang protects the structure.  The Foo dog lamps are estimated at €200-€300.

    Among the more expensively estimated lots are  a set of ten Cork 11-bar chairs (€1,500-€2,000), an old cut glass six branch chandelier (€1,000-€1,500), a set of six Cork 11-bar chairs (€800-€1,200), a Georgian style dining table with satinwood crossbanding

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