Damien Matthews

Results MONDAY 29TH AND TUESDAY 30TH JULY Damien Matthews and Stephen Ryan, The Temperance Hall, Kinsale, George II Irish Red Walnut Table with Carv(...)

Auctions taking place around the country this week include some rare and unusual items. At John Weldon’s Fine Jewellery sale at Cow’s Lane in Temple (...)

Auction results Tuesday, July 23rd Fonsie Mealy, Chatsworth Summer Fine Art Auction Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny Vivien Greene’s dolls houses achieved t(...)

Although the Irish art market appears to be heading towards recovery since the economic crash, it still remains a fickle world. Take, for example, Flo(...)

Auction Results Whytes, 38 Molesworth Street, Dublin 2 January 26th: Sean Kearns Postcard collection was a “white glove sale”, where every lot sold. (...)

The week ahead will be exceptionally busy for Irish auctioneers as sales postponed due to the poor weather vie for attention with those already schedu(...)

Ever heard of the Offaly man who spoke 27 languages, fought in the first World War, shot a man-eating tiger in India, explored the Himalayas, went cro(...)

How do you sell a library? Not just any old library, either, but a whopping 25,000 books, assembled over a lifetime by a woman who was happy to live o(...)

A notable Victorian-era sex toy which belonged to an Anglo-Irish family sold at auction today for €3,200*, receiving more than 100 bids from nearly 40(...)

It is difficult to describe Lot 475 in next weekend’s two-day auction at Matthews Auctioneers in Oldcastle, Co Meath, without resorting to double-ente(...)