TOWN & Country auctioneers are conducting a house contents sale tomorrow afternoon from 2 p.m. at 15 Elgin Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin, where the highest price is likely to be made by a pair of Georgian mahogany bookcases (estimate £3,000-£4,000). A set of six Regency mahogany dining chairs is estimated to sell for £2,800-£3,590.
Also worth examining at the viewing today and tomorrow morning is an Irish William IV library table, expected to make £1,800-£2,200 a pair of Chippendale revival cabinets (£2,000-£3,000) and an Edwardian inlaid mahogany bow front display cabinet (£1,000-£1,200).
On Monday, Mullen's of Laurel Park will be holding an auction on the premises at Woodbrook, Co Dublin, with the leading lot among almost 300 lots being a rather unusual item a 29ft yacht dating from the end of the last century. Called the Peggy Bawn, the boat was built in Carrickfergus in 1894 by the firm of J. Hilditch.
Owned by the same family for most of is existence, it is believed to be the last surviving yacht of its kind.
There is plenty of furniture in the same auction, not least of which is a pair of bronze torcheres in the form of scantily clad women almost 8ft high, they carry an estimate of £3,000-£4,000. An Art Deco style writing desk, veneered throughout in pollard walnut and ebony, is expected to make £2,000-£2,500, as is a Regency white matle topped mahogany side table, possibly Irish and dating from around 1820.
A Georgian mahogany long case clock by Chris Clarke of Dublin should also do well (£1,800-£2,200).
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