Interior of Reidy’s Wine Vault bar to be sold by Lynes and Lynes.
Reidy’s Wine Vaults in Cork or the Black Cat in Kilkenny? Against a background where the market for collectibles is performing strongly contents from these popular and now closed watering holes will come up at sales by Aidan Foley and Lynes and Lynes next week.
Aidan Foley will hold three days of online sales with antiques, silver, art, automobilia and pub memorabilia on May 4, 5 and 6 at 6 pm each day. Along with some contents from Kilkenny’s Black Cat bar on Black Mill St. in Kilkenny there is art by Mabel Young, Carol Ann Waldron, Ivan Sutton, Markey Robinson and Sean Keating. The auction has a good selection of vintage forecourt signs, enamel signs, modern dealership signs and paraphernalia like oil cans which are also in strong demand. The auction is on view in Doneraile over this Bank Holiday weekend.
The fine interior bar fittings from Reidy’s Wine Vault at Lancaster Quay in Cork, which has been sold and is to become a restaurant, will come under the hammer as one lot at a sale by Denis Lynes on May 9. The bar counter, which measures over 29′ in length, back bar, dividers, cabinets and light fittings is estimated at €70,000-€120,000. There will be viewing on the premises on May 6 from 10 am to 5 pm. In March the complete fittings from the West End Bar in Portadown, one of the oldest licensed premises in Co. Armagh, made a hammer price of €120,000 at an auction by Victor Mee.
Mabel Young (1889-1974) – A Cottage in a landscape at Aidan Foley’s sale.
