AN Edwardian mahogany rectangular extending dining table sold for £1,650 at the recent auction held by Herman & Wilkinson on the premises of the Presentation Convent, Carrick-on-Suir, Co Tipperary. Both a Georgian mahogany slopefront table and a set of six William IV rosewood dining chairs made £1,600 a air of Belleek vases sold for £1,550 and a Georgian mahogany rectangular snap-top breakfast table fetched £1,150. A William IV mahogany circular dining table made £1,100.

Herman & Wilkinson also conducted a recent auction at 12 Sydney Avenue, Blackrock, Dublin, where a pair of inlaid mahogany rail-end single beds sold for £940, a Victorian figured walnut mirror-back three-tier whatnot realised £700 and a walnut-eased, glazed-door Vienna wall clock fetched £540.