Antiques Fairs

Roadshow and fair to aid Navan school

The Ardboyne Hotel in Navan, Co Meath, is the venue for an antiques roadshow and fair tomorrow in aid of St Patrick's Classical School in Navan. Stuart Cole of James Adam will be on hand to offer valuations. Admission is £2.

Children's prints among items at Dublin Castle

A large collection of Victorian and Edwardian children's prints, including ones by well-known artist Louis Wain, will be among the items for sale at the Dublin Castle antiques and collectables fair tomorrow.

This fair will also feature collections of thematic stamps, including royalty, and examples of stamps from Britain, Ireland and central and eastern Europe.

There will also be a selection of costume jewellery from the 1920s and 1930s. Other items on offer include silver, linen, lace, china, old movie posters, books and old toys.

The fair, which opens to the public at 10.30 a.m., takes place in the Old Coach House.

Signatures of rich and famous on offer

Specialist bibliophiles should be interested in the limited editions of children's illustrated books which will be for sale at the antiques and books fair in Newman House, St Stephen's Green, Dublin, tomorrow.

The 1929 US edition of The Vicar of Wakefield and Peter Pan, illustrated by Rackham, are among the rarer items on offer. A large collection of original hand-coloured maps from the Report of the Shannon Commission (1834), a collection of antiquarian books on Irish genealogy and Flora Mitchell's Vanishing Dublin are other items which may be of particular interest to book collectors. An autographed photograph of Frank Sinatra and a letter signed by German writer Herman Hesse may attract collectors drawn to the rich and famous.

The usual array of antique silver, porcelain, jewellery, linen and lace will also be on offer at the fair.

Furniture dealers for Tralee event tomorrow

The ambulatory Hibernian antiques and collectables fair is in the Brandon Hotel, Tralee, tomorrow for what is, according to organiser, Robin O'Donnell, one of their biggest fairs to date. The large conference facilities at the hotel will accommodate more than 50 dealers, who are bringing their wares from all over the Republic. Mr O'Donnell notes that there will be quite a number of furniture dealers present, including himself. A late 18th-century Irish Georgian military chest with an ebony Grecian key inlay (£2,000) and a mid 19th-century Victorian rosewood serpentine low-table (£1,500) are just a sample of the items on sale. The fair will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.