A mid Victorian, Louis XV style walnut lady's writing desk sold for £3,200, and a Georgian inlaid mahogany composite bureau bookcase made £2,025 at a recent auction of over 500 lots at Thomas P. Adams in Blackrock Dublin.

In a mahogany bow front table sold for £1,200 and a set of six Royal Worchester coffee cups and saucers, dating from 1930, fetched £1,000.