Drop-leaf hunt table sells for £1,800

A 20th-century mahogany oval drop-leaf hunt table went slightly over its upper estimate to make £1,800 at last Wednesday's furniture and fine-art auction at Hamilton Osborne King in Blackrock, Co Dublin. A set of nine mahogany dining chairs, also from the present century and in the Georgian style, sold for £1,700 and a rosewood-cased Broadwood grand piano went under the hammer for £1,500.

Two 19th century walnut-framed armchairs made £1,000, as did a mid-19th century mahogany sideboard. A mahogany longcase clock from the same period, signed Hughes, Dublin, fetched £750, the same price as a 20th-century Georgian-style mahogany veneered side cabinet.

Among pictures, the day's best price of £1,800 was paid for an oil on board by Charles Vincent Lamb.

Brass-faced grandfather clock fetches £2,000

Auctioneer R.J. Keighery describes as "very successful" the auction held in his Waterford rooms last Monday, when a Victorian table with four leaves made £2,700 and a brass-faced grandfather clock fetched £2,000.

Other prices achieved at this sale include: £1,700 for a Georgian slope-fronted bureau; £1,450 for a Georgian dumbwaiter; and £1,150 for a Georgian wing armchair.