MICHAEL Donohue and Sons, the auctioneers based in Goresbridge, Co Kilkenny, will be holding their next sale on the premises on Monday, starting at 6 p.m.
Top price is expected for a large inlaid mahogany mirror back sideboard (valued at £2,000-2,500), while a set of six mahogany dining chairs stamped and labelled by Strahan carry the same reserve. An Edwardian inlaid mahogany, bow ended display cabinet is expected to make £800-1,200.
There's plenty of mahogany included in this sale, not least a Victorian chest of drawers (£500-600), a Georgian linen press (£700-800) and an art nouveau, inlaid display cabinet, stamped by Rob son & Sons of Newcastle upon Tyne (£800-1,200).
Meanwhile, 560 lots went under the hammer at last Tuesday's auction conducted by Thomas P Adams & Co at their Blackrock, Co Dublin, premises with bidding fairly evenly divided between trade and private buyers.
The day's best price of £3,590 was made by a diamond solitaire of 2.5 carats with baguette cut diamond shoulders mounted in platinum, while a Victorian silver plated centrepiece of a 18.5" high vine tree supporting three candelabra made £1,200.
Among the furniture, an Edwardian three piece, satinwood salon suite with ebony string inlay sold for £1,500 and a mahogany hunt table reached £1,450. A George Campbell oil entitled London in Wartime sold for £1,300.
