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Georgian Irish silver buttons. UPDATE: THESE MADE €1,420 at hammer
A set of seven c1760 Georgian Irish silver buttons, inscribed ‘Armagh Hunt’ and with an engraving of a hare is one of the more unusual lots at the online sale by O’Donovan’s of Newcastlewest on June 3. The estimate is €300-350. The evening auction offers 439 lots of period furniture, hallmarked silver, shop and pub clearances, enamel signs and collectibles. The catalogue is online.
A rare Paddy Whiskey enamel sign UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,360 AT HAMMER
The estimate of €1,400-€1,500 for a 1937 enamel sign for Paddy Whiskey at O’Donovan’s two day sale in Newcastle West on February 24 and 25 is a mark of the strength of the current market for old Irish collectibles. A total of 546 lots of pub contents, memorabilia, enamel signs and vintage advertising will come under the hammer over two online evening auctions. Here you will find everything from a Power’s Whiskey mirror and a fireside bellows by Lucey and O”Connell, Cork to a two sided road sign for Beal na Blath with an Irish harp and a hallmarked Irish silver coffee pot with Celtic knotwork by Bee Moynihan, Limerick, 1970.
Marble altar sculpted by J.F. Davis. UPDATE: THIS MADE 1,400 AT HAMMER
This marble altar, sculpted by John Francis Davis in Cork around 1910, comes up at O’Donovans online only sale of the contents of the Redemptorist Esker Monastery near Athenry in Newcastle West on August 24. A total of 315 lots, including church pews, altars, statues, paintings and household effects will come under the hammer. All are to be sold without reserve. There are two altars and a set of altar rails with Celtic Cross motifs by J F Davis in the auction. No estimate has been issued and there is a stipulation that the altars must be removed without causing damage to the building. John Francis Davis was a stone and marble mason born around 1860 in Kilkenny. He had a workshop near College Road in Cork city until 1914 and many of his commissions were ecclesiastical. He left Cork for Belfast in 1914 and started a new business under the name of JFD Malcolm. UPDATE: The second altar made 1,900 and the set of altar rails made 720 (hammer prices).
