Damien Matthews

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Life cast Masks of David Bowie by Joe Murray (€500-€700), Morgan O’Driscoll.
In the auction rooms: Bowie masks, hares and stags

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(...)

A baboon taxidermy achieved €1,200 (€500-€600) at Usher Auction Rooms, Kells.
Auction results: Postcards from history and a stuffed baboon

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

A carved blackwood and lacquered screen applied with ivory figures (€6,000-€10,000) which will be auctioned at Mullen’s Auctioneers
After Emma and ‘the Beast’, a bumper week for antiques sales as 8,000 lots go for sale

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(...)

Charles Howard-Bury crocodile-hunting in Burma.
The Irishman who wore Charvet shirts, shot tigers and kept a bear

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(...)

Duke Brothers on Market Street: it took six men six days to put the books into 1,674 boxes and three articulated lorries to transport them to Kells
Irish woman's extraordinary book collection goes under the hammer in Kells

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(...)

‘This would have been a very loving gift from a husband to wife,’ says auctioneer Damien Matthews “This would have been a very loving gift from a husband to wife,” said auctioneer Damien Matthews ahead of the auction.
Victorian-era sex toy sells for €3,200 at Co Meath auction

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(...)

‘This would have been a very loving gift from a husband to wife,’ says auctioneer Damien Matthews “This would have been a very loving gift from a husband to wife,” said auctioneer Damien Matthews ahead of the auction.
Yes, yes, yes: It’s a Victorian-era Irish sex toy

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(...)

This water buffalo head will go under the hammer in Kells, Co Meath with an estimate of €1,500-€1,800.
Auctions & Fairs: recent results and upcoming sales

Auction results: Saturday and Sunday (October 29th and 30th) Damien Matthews Auctioneers auction of the contents of Kilternan Lodge, Co Dublin – fo(...)

A Maserati with 30,000 miles on the clock is guided at €15,000 - €20,000
Dublin 4 house contents auction features wine and a Maserati

Ailesbury Road in Ballsbridge is, along with the adjacent Shewsbury Road in Ballsbridge, Ireland’s most expensive and exclusive residential area. A ch(...)

Meissen porcelain ewer, made circa 1880, after the model by JJ Kaendler, emblematic of The Element Fire
Auction results and forthcoming sales

AUCTION RESULTS: Tuesday (July 12th) Mealy’s, Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny. The summer sale, including paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, (...)

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