Sunday (April 3rd): International Autograph Auctions Ltd, Radisson Edwardian Hotel, Heathrow. A letter, dated and signed in 1947 by Princess (now Queen) Elizabeth sent to the Countess of Wicklow in Gorey, Co Wexford £390 (£200-£300).
Drum’s of Malahide, Co Dublin. A 1947 letter from Éamon de Valera, Taoiseach €850 (€500-€1,000).
Tuesday (April 5th): Mealy’s auction of contents of Mallow Castle and other country houses, Hibernian Hotel, Mallow, Co Cork. Ancient Irish giant deer antlers, €35,000 (€10,000-€15,000); oil-on-canvas, Horses Grazing at James’s Fort, Kinsale, Co Cork by Patrick Hennessy €14,000 (9,000-€12,000); oil-on-canvas, Bartholomew O’Sullivan’s Paper Manufactory, Ironworks and Foundry at Beechmount, near Dripsey, Co Cork by Nathaniel Grogan Snr €13,000 (€10,000-€15,000); a marble bust of Apollo by Vincenzo Livi €11,000 (€4,000-€6,000); a Regency carved giltwood settee (from the 1932 sale of furnishings from Kilkenny Castle), €6,500 (€4,000-€6,000); The Painter Friends, a pair of miniature portraits of each other by Patrick Hennessy and Harry Robertson Craig €3,250 (€1,250-€1,750) .
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS
Tomorrow, Sunday (April 10th): Mullen’s, Laurel Park, Old Bray Road, Woodbrook, Bray, Co Dublin. Antique furniture and fine art auction, 12 noon.
Limerick Auction Rooms, Hamptons House, Garryglass Estate, Ballysimon Road, Limerick. Antiques auction at 11am. 450 lots including autographs from the crew of the Apollo 13 crew from their visit to Limerick.
Monday (April 11th): R J Keighery, City Auction Rooms, George’s Quay, Waterford. Antiques Auction at 11am. Over 900 lots.
Tuesday (April 12th): Oliver Usher Auctioneers, Kells, Co Meath. Auction at 5pm.
Sotheby’s, New York: auction to mark the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight in 1961. The Russian space capsule, Vostok 3KA-2 – which carried a life-size cosmonaut mannequin and a dog into orbit – is for sale, ($2m-$10m/€1.38m-€6.84m).
FORTHCOMING FAIRS:
Tomorrow, Sunday (April 10th): Antiques Fair, Mullingar Park Hotel, Dublin Road, Mullingar, Co Westmeath. 12 noon-6pm.
