Due to demand for space, Fair Aisle Promotions will be running antiques and collectables fairs on three consecutive Sundays, the first tomorrow, starting at 11 a.m. Various specialist dealers are expected to attend, covering such areas as stamps, coins, military medals, bank notes and collectable toys.

Sam Watson of the Toy Soldier Museum will be exhibiting and Elaine Cairns is bringing Victorian and Edwardian watercolours. A number of other dealers will offer antique jewellery, porcelain, antique silver, textiles, 1950s dolls and tin plate toys.

Dublin event to offer 45 stands

The usual monthly antiques and collectors fair will be held tomorrow in the Doyle Tara Towers Hotel on Dublin's Merrion Road from 10 a.m. There will be 45 stands, offering Victorian clocks, furniture, coins, pictures, china, brass and copperware, porcelain, silver, jewellery and miscellaneous bric-a-brac.

Forthcoming Auction

Ranelagh sale offers good Victorian items

Town & Country fine art auctioneers are conducting a house contents sale tomorrow at 1 Hollybank Avenue, Ranelagh, Dublin, at 2 p.m. Although this is a relatively small auction, there are a number of good pieces being sold, such as a Victorian walnut mirror-backed credenza, estimated to sell for £800£1,200. Then there is a Victorian giltwood overmantle mirror (£600£800) and a set of Victorian dining chairs (£1,200-£1,400). In addition, the sale offers a collection of bedroom furniture, chests of drawers, wardrobes, a breakfast table and a Victorian desk.

Auction Result

French gilt settee sold for £1,400

The following prices were made at a recent auction in Clontarf, Dublin, conducted by Drums of Malahide: £2,000 for a watercolour called Early Spring; £1,400 for a two-seater French gilt settee, with full tapestry seat and back; £1,200 for an oil study of Kathleen Lambert by Leo Whelan; and £850 for an antique tray-back sideboard in need of restoration.