Hamilton seascape makes leading price
A small oil on board by Letitia Hamilton showing a seascape near Roundstone in Connemara sold for £1,700 at Drum's of Malahide last month. This was the day's best price, with a William IV mahogany library table fetching £1,500, an antique mahogany cross-banded snap-top breakfast table selling for £1,400 and a small Victorian mahogany two-door bookcase making for £1,000.
Victorian dining table is sold for £2,800
A Victorian dining table with five leaves sold for £2,800 and a cross-banded sofa table made £1,450 at the auction in the Waterford rooms of R.J. Keighery last Monday. A boulle bonheur de jour went for £1,350, a Georgian bureau sold for £1,300, a carved settee fetched £1,100 and a dozen oak dining chairs sold for £1,050.
Top price of £3,300 for gothic bookcase cabinet
A top price of £3,300 was paid for a Victorian gothic two-door bookcase cabinet at last weekend's sale of the contents of the Christian Brothers' property in Mitchelstown, Co Cork. An early Victorian mahogany library bookcase sold for £2,800 and other sums realised at the auction included £2,500 for a mid19th-century mahogany-cased grandfather clock, £2,000 for both an Irish serving table and a 19th-century bookcase secretaire, £1,800 for a William IV mahogany sideboard and £1,600 for an oak rent table.
