AUCTION RESULTS:
Tuesday (July 12th)
Mealy's, Castlecomer, Co Kilkenny. The summer sale, including paintings, furniture, silver, ceramics, glass, rare books from the collection of art historian Prof Anne Crookshank; 77 per cent of lots sold. Lot 277: An oil on canvas painting, A Wild Boar, Attacked by a Pack of Dogs in a Landscape, attributed to artist Frans Snyders, €37,000 (€35,000-€55,000); lot 279: a Meissen porcelain ewer, made circa 1880, after the model by JJ Kaendler, emblematic of The Element Fire (below), €12,000 (€7,000-€11,000). For further results, see mealys.ie
Tuesday (July 12th)
Sotheby's, London. An original copy of the 1916 Proclamation estimated at £100,000-£150,000 failed to sell; a diary kept by Henry Douglas, a lieutenant in the Second (Robin Hood) Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters Regiment, "recording his service in Dublin and central Ireland during the Easter Rising", £5,500 (£5,000-£7,000).
Wednesday (July 13th)
Christie's, London. An original copy of the 1916 Proclamation, estimated at £150,000-£200,000, failed to sell. Wednesday (July 13th) O'Reilly's Auction Rooms, Francis Street, Dublin. Gold commemorative medallions designed by Hungarian sculptor Paul Vincz (above, on left) and struck in 1966 to mark the 50th Anniversary of the Easter Rising failed to sell, but a platinum version of the medallion, weighing 6oz, sold for €4,900 (€5,000-€6,000).
FORTHCOMING AUCTIONS:
Tomorrow, Sunday (July 17th)
Damien Matthews Auctioneers on-the-premises house contents auction in St Lawrence House, Bailieborough, Co Cavan at 2pm. Viewing today 11am - 5pm.
Wednesday & Thursday (July 20th, 21st)
Herman & Wilkinson, Fine Art Salerooms, Swan Hall, 161 Lower Rathmines Road, Dublin 6. Two-day jewellery auction at 10am with almost 2,000 lots – and no reserve prices – to include 600 "designer watches"; "an extensive range of valuable loose diamonds" and other gemstones; and, "platinum, gold and silver designer jewellery", including "pendants, chains, lockets, earrings, brooches, bangles and bracelets". Viewing from 10am on Monday (July 18th).
