Ireland

In US collecting circles the ‘Anson-Ewing Burke Ale poster’ is spoken of in hushed tones. When an example was sold by New Jersey baseball memorabilia specialist Robert Edwards Auctions for $188,000 in 2008, it was described as the best-preserved of only three known. More recently in February another was sold for $96,000 at Heritage Auctions in Dallas.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from May 21-June 2, 2019.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from May 14-25, 2019.

Godwin Swifte, who styled himself as Lord Carlingford, was a member of one of Ireland’s notable families and a maverick of early flight.

With ‘on the premises’ country house contents sales now so rare, the more usual practice is for the better pieces to be removed to saleroom bases.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from May 8-15, 2019.

Some 150 lots of books formed part of a recent Irish auction held at Fortgranite, Baltinglass, in Co Wicklow, the home for over 200 years of the Dennis family.

On account of its relative scarcity, all Irish silver carries a premium. It is the pieces made in small provincial centres that are most highly prized.

British and Irish book auctions: April 16-27, 2019

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from April 16-27, 2019.

A label to this 21 x 16½in (53 x 42cm) print reads 'Photograph of the Moon, taken by Prof Henry Draper, MD, with a silvered glass Telescope, Fifteen and a Half Inches Aperture, Hastings NY September 3rd 1863'.

The boom in all things Chinese does occasionally make one marvel as to how and why some material finished up in the West.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from April 9-18, 2019.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from March 19-30, 2019.

A massive 3ft (92cm) high majolica urn – a riot of grotesque masks, mythical figures and other motifs drawn from Renaissance sources – combining the talents of two key figures in the history of the Minton factory was included in Fonsie Mealy’s (20% buyer’s premium) sale on March 5.

Although catalogued as 18th century, this marquetry table cabinet – sold for a multi-estimate sum in Ireland last week – is more probably late 16th or early 17th century.

ATG’s calendar of book auctions taking place in the UK and Ireland from March 12-23, 2019.