Items from Shrewsbury Road home will attract private buyers

NEXT week's auction being conducted by Hamilton Osborne King at the company's Blackrock, Co Dublin, premises has a particular piquancy thanks to the presence of a large number of items from one house.

This is the Shrewsbury Road home of the recently deceased Miss H.M. Cairns, last to reside in the property which was built by her family at the beginning of the century, the house itself goes on the market shortly. Largely unaltered for the past 50 years, the house contents include many personal items which are likely to be of interest to private buyers.

The same Hamilton Osborne King auction also includes items from the home of the late Brigadier Wingfield of Brownstone Park Co Meath, which was sold at the end of last February.

The house's owners obviously had strong equestrian interests because there are generous amounts of such items as the Royal Huzzar Journal and the Bloodstock Breeders Review, as well as the Powers Gold Cup of 1979 won by Brigadier Wingfield's horse Persian Wanderer (estimate £200-300).

And in the week when it was announced that Sir Edward Carson's Dublin birthplace is to be protected from demolition, HOK's sale will also include a casket of 1913 carrying facsimile signatures of Unionist MPs of the period including Carsons.

Among the particularly interesting items of furniture in next week's sale are a set of eight mahogany provincial chairs in the Georgian style (estimate £1,000-1,500).

There are a number of long case clocks by Dublin and London makers ranging in price from £600 to £1,500, a two fold Chinese screen from the late 19th century (£800-1,200), and a pair of late 18th century slope-front cutlery boxes (£600-1,000).