An Adam-style mahogany, bow-fronted corner cabinet sold for £4,200 and a Victorian mahogany secretaire bookcase fetched £3,800 at the recent Sheppard's of Durrow sale. A picture of a Scotsman on horseback by John Emms went for £4,800 and Thomas Sydney Cooper's Cows and Sheep in a Landscape went under the hammer for £3,800.

A 19th century mahogany and inlaid longcase clock made £3,000, a neo-classical mahogany and inlaid kneehole writing desk fetched £2,200 and a Regency period mahogany and rosewood cross-banded Pembroke table sold for £2,000.