Everything from glass to fireplaces with prices likely to start at £20

TOWN & Country auctioneers will be holding its annual architectural and garden statuary sale next Monday at Tritonville Hall on Dublin's Sandymount Road. Almost everything - shop fronts, advertising signs, leaded glass, fireplaces and fanlights - will be included, at prices expected to begin around £20.

The following day, beginning at 10.30 a.m., Herman & Wilkinson are conducting an auction at 19 Herbert Road in Bray, a house which has been in the same family ownership for more than a century. Among the items expected to do particularly well are a William IV rosewood davenport, the whole front section of which slides forward; a Georgian flip top table; and a Victorian lady's work/embroidery box, complete with all its original fittings. diamond

Wednesday sees an auction of fine jewellery and silverware on the premises of O'Reilly's of Upper Exchange Street in Dublin. A late Victorian five stone diamond ring of approximately four carats is expected to fetch £4,000-£5,000, a diamond crescent brooch from the same period £1,200-£1,500 and a diamond and sapphire cluster ring £2,500-£3,000.

In Malahide next Thursday at 7 p.m., a Drums sale will include the contents of the late Diane Neville's home at No 4 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. Mrs Neville collected a number of handsome pieces, such as a rosewood library table dating from 1840-50; this is expected to make £1,000-£2,000.

A large bulbous Cantonese vase, almost 24 inches high, carries an estimate of £1,000-£1,500, a set of eight Cork rail back dining chairs, circa 1920, are valued at £1,000-£2,000 and a late 19th century walnut chiffonier sideboard with marble top has an estimate of £500-£800.