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    UPGRADE YOUR DINING STYLE AT SALES IN DUBLIN AND WATERFORD

    Saturday, February 21st, 2026

    Mucha portrait with Sarah Bernhardt at Adams. UPDATE: THIS MADE 750 AT HAMMER

    Memo to the slow food movement. Nothing complements fine dining so much as silver and crystal. The At Home sale by Adam’s in Dublin and R.J. Keighery’s biggest ever single day auction in Waterford offers bags of both. Both auctions are on Tuesday February 24. Pride of place at Adams is a 24 place Sheffield silver thread pattern canteen from around 1947. It weighs over 446 try ounces in total, excluding the stainless steel blades and sits in its own walnut lowboy chest on cabriole legs.  The estimate is €10,000-€15,000.

    There is an extensive selection of 150 lots of silver at Adam’s, over half from a single Irish vendor, along with antique furniture, mirrors, porcelain and art. A lithograph poster by Alphonse Mucha with Sarah Bernhardt playing Photina in La Samaritaine by Edmond Rostand is among a number of collectible in a sale with more than 500 lots. 

    At Keigherys a Waterford Crystal Dublin Castle chandelier (€2,500-€3,500) and an Arts and Crafts silver porringer (€1,200-€1,800) are among the leading lots.  More than 750 lots will come under the hammer in an auction that offers jewellery, watches, period furniture, Oriental rugs, mirrors and two large pitch pine refectory tables.  Both auctions are now on view and the catalogues are online.

    An Arts and Crafts silver porringer with green glass liner at  Keighery’s. UPDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD

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    CLOCKS, CLOCKS, CLOCKS, A DIVING HELMET AND ALL SORTS OF SIGNS

    Thursday, January 8th, 2026

    The auction by R J Keighery in Waterford on Monday January 12 includes a lifetime collection of clocks, railwayana and maritime items. A longcase clock with brass dial by Alex Gordon, Dublin has an estimate of €2,000-€3,000 but estimates for many others are lower than this. A 19th century Siebbe Gorman 12 bolt diving helmen is estimated at €1,500-€2,500 and an 1894 timetable for the Dingle and Tralee light railway has an estimate of €6,000-€8,000. There is a selection of old enamel road signs and the catalogue is online.

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    ANNUAL GARDEN SALE BY KEIGHERY’S IN WATERFORD

    Saturday, April 12th, 2025

     Art Nouveau style birdbath. UPDATE: THIS MADE 220 AT HAMMER

    Opportunities to spring into outdoor action abound at the annual garden sale by R.J. Keighery in Waterford on April 14. Cast iron garden seats in gothic and other styles, glazed and cast iron urns, stone troughs, a pair of large terracotta lions, staddle stones or mushrooms, even some anvils to forge a nod to the past with potential to find a hitherto unforeseen new use in some sunny or shady spot. 

    In the 21st century gardens are for living in and this sale offers oodles of decor to enhance suburban spaces and balconies of any size among more than 700 lots.  Gothic style mirrors could work in many spaces and a magnificent pair of forged black powder coated and galvanised entrance gates will undoubtedly be just the ticket for someone. There ought to be demand for some salvaged forged field gates too. The sale, with its selection of old cast iron water pumps, birdbaths, lanterns and blue porcelain conservatory seats, is on view today and tomorrow and the catalogue is online.

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    TIME FOR A REALLY GREAT CLOCK AT WATERFORD AUCTION

    Wednesday, January 8th, 2025

    View of the some of the selection on offer

    Nearly 300 clocks from one collection will come under the hammer at Keighery’s auction in Waterford on January 13. This lifetime collection from a single estate (a bungalow) offers an impressive array of vintage and collectible clocks from prestigious Irish and English makers. Assembled over the decades it comprises 200 antique wall clocks, 28 longcase clocks, mantel clocks and pocket watches. The most expensively estimated is a lady’s Patek Phillippe watch in 18 carat gold specifically made for a client in 1882 with the original receipt (€2,000-€4,000). A c1770 longcase clock by Thomas Cahill, Waterford is estimated at €2,000-€3,000. Many lots have low estimates. Among them are a single fusee wall clock by Mangans of Cork (€250-€350), a Victorian paper mache clock with pendulum (€120-€180), a Dublin longcase clock in Chippendale style (€800-€1,200) and a marble clock and barometer retailed by Davis and Sons, London (€300-€500).

    The sale includes more than 80 original advertising signs and the catalogue, with 470 lots in total, is online. Thomas Keighery said: “There is a great interest in this particular auction, we can see a new cohort of bidders from all across the world. We have bidders registered from the UK, France, and the USA  all across Europe. We have bidders from all across Ireland and we are expecting a full house next Monday in Waterford – home of the Irish Museum of Time.”

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    PATH TO FREEDOM BY MICHAEL COLLINS ON THE CENTENARY OF HIS DEATH

    Saturday, August 20th, 2022
    UPDATE: THIS MADE 360 AT HAMMER

    The Path to Freedom by Michael Collins published by The Talbot Press comes up at R.J. Keighery’s sale in Waterford next Monday, the 100th anniversary of the murder of Collins at Beal na Blath in Co. Cork on August 22, 1921.  The 1922 book has chapters including “Advance and Use of our Liberties”, “Alternative to the Treaty”, “The Proof of Success”, “Four Historic Years”, “Collapse of the Terror”, “Partition Act’s Failure”, “Why Britain Sought Irish Peace” and “Freedom within Grasp”. Lot 306 is estimated at €80-€120. More than 600 lots of furniture, Irish art, chandeliers, jewellery, silver and collectibles will come under the hammer. The catalogue is online.

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    CONTENTS OF WATERFORD CITY BAR UNDER THE HAMMER

    Thursday, February 3rd, 2022
    ORIGINAL PLAYERS PLEASE ADVERTISING POSTER. UPDATE: THIS MADE 110 AT HAMMER

    Advertising posters for various brands of cigarette were once a common sight throughout Ireland. They have vanished in the 21st century. This one comes up as lot 38 with an estimate of 60-100 at R.J. Keighery’s online sale of the contents of the Munster Bar, The Mall, Waterford on February 9. A total of 196 lots will be offered.

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    LATE 19TH CENTURY YIXING DISH AT KEIGHERY’S

    Tuesday, October 17th, 2017

    A late 19th century Chinese dish with modelled nuts and seeds.

    One of the more unusual lots at R.J. Keighery’s sale at the City Auction Rooms in Waterford on October 23 is a late 19th century Chinese dish of nuts and seeds.  The finely modelled group of eight Yixing nuts and seeds carry means like fertility and good luck.  Keighery’s say they are from the colleciton of the late Alvin Wilson of Hong Kong and Oxford and estimate the lot at 450-550.

    The sale will feature pub mirrors and signs, a collection of vintage model cars, porcelain, jewellery. antique furniture and a Waterford Crystal claret decanter.

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