Tuesday (July 12th)Adams, St Stephens Green, Dublin. Interiors and Collectables sale. 70 per cent of lots sold. A large, rectangular silver tray, dated London 1869, €4,000 (€1,800-€2,400); a Portrait of Mary Florence Vanderbyl (watercolour) by Sir Frederic William Burton €3,200 (€2,000-€4,000); a pair of 18th-century Turkish flintlock holster pistols €2,700 (€3,000-€3,500); a Killarney- ware sewing table €2,500 (€1,000-€1,500); a Victorian rosewood oval centre table €1,800 (€2,000-€3,000); taxidermy – birds and butterflies in a mahogany cabinet, €1,300 (€800-€1,200; a late 19th century English cavalry plumed helmet €700 (€300-€500); a 1930s Garda blue cloth helmet €380 (€200-€300); a signed photograph of Eamon de Valera €320 (€300-€500).
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS
Saturday (July 23rd)Oliver Usher Auctioneers, Executors' auction at Cullentra House, Longwood, Co Meath. 11.30am. To include Victorian, Edwardian and art deco furniture; garden furniture and ebony and ivory figures from the Congo.
FORTHCOMING FAIRS
Sunday (July 17th)The Co Clare Antiques Fair, The Falls Hotel, Ennistymon, Co Clare. 11am-6pm
Sunday (July 17th)Collectors' Toy Fair, Bray Wheelers' Clubhouse, Schools Road, off Boghall Rd, Bray, Co Wicklow. 10am-3pm
