The National Antique & Fine Art Fair – Limerick – Saturday 2nd/Sunday 3rd November, 2013
The National Antique & Art Fair
(Hibernian Antique & Art Fairs)
The South Court Hotel, Raheen Roundabout, Raheen, Limerick
On: Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd November, 2013
Limerick will be the place to be if you want to be part of the biggest gathering of Antique & Art dealers anywhere in Ireland – and we mean bigger than any other Fair in Ireland! No matter what your interest there will be something for you at the Fair. Antique Furniture, Irish Art, Jewellery & Silver, Porcelain & China, Books, Coins & Banknotes, Clocks, Vintage Fashion & Accessories – you name it and it will be here. Up to 100 Dealers from all over Ireland will be selling their wares to the public over the two days.
Full list of exhibitors here: EXHIBITORS
There has never been a better time to collect or invest in Antiques & Art. You cannot fail to pick up a bargain no matter what your interest may be.
From: 11.00am – 6.00pm daily
Admission: Adults €3.50 – children FREE.
*Or just €5 (for two adults + their children) if you print out and bring the voucher below.
Further information: Hibernian Antique Fairs – Robin O’Donnell (087) 693 3602
or email: robinodon@gmail.com
Directions click here: South Court Hotel
Purcell’s (Birr) Auction has plenty of interest for enamel sign collectors!
70+ Lots of quality vintage enamel signs are included in Purcell’s (Birr) sale of Antiques & Collectables tomorrow Saturday 12th October. Some real gems here including several rare, double sided, AA signs (see below) and prices are now very competitive. For years the best of these signs were beyond the means of many private collectors and found their way into Irish theme pubs, but with changing tastes, and the decline of the pub trade, many items are now back on the market and at realistic prices.
In Victorian times the use of sheet steel coated in vitreous enamel became popular for advertising signs. It retained its bright colours for far longer than either paint or print. The heyday of the enamel sign was not long (1880/1910) and some place the start of their decline from popularity at the about the time that the railways stopped expanding. It seems that a more general downturn in the use of enamel signs began in the 1920’s with the Depression. Then in the Second World War the use of steel for advertising purposes was prohibited and many existing signs were recycled in the scrap metal drive.
After the War fashions changed more rapidly than in the past, as did prices, so there was little point in such hard wearing signs whose message and price would inevitably be out of date long before the sign wore out. Indeed, such was the durability of the signs that many still turn up today in good condition after more than fifty years in use as a shed roof or some similar function.
The advertising is from an era before the product got lost in the message! Simple slogans such as ‘Guinness is good for you’ or ‘Brooke Bond Tea’ (illustrated here) with little else added were the norm.
Catalogue pages for advertising signs: 
Full catalogue here:
48th Irish Antique Dealers Association Annual Fair
The 48th Irish Antique Dealers Association Annual Fair
At the Royal Dublin Society (RDS), Ballsbridge, Dublin .4.
From:
Friday 27th – Sunday 29th September, 2013
Opening times:
Friday 27th September from 11.00am – 9.00pm
Saturday 28th September from 11.00am – 7.00pm
Sunday 29th September from 11.00am – 6.00pm
Further information: http://www.iada.ie/
Massive Two-day Cork National Antique & Art Fair – Sat.14th & Sun.15th September, 2013
Cork National Antique & Art Fair,
Silver Springs Moran Hotel, Tivoli, Cork
(Hibernian Antique Fairs)
On: Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th September, 2013
From: 11.00am – 6.00pm both days.
Admission: €3.50 for Adults including FREE inclusion in raffle.
Children most welcome and FREE.
FREE Parking.
Following the resounding success of the February Fair here which saw us treble in size, in terms of attendance and exhibitors, we promise to knock your socks off with this one. There will be in excess of 80 Antique & Art dealers present including 15 or 16 members of The IADA (Irish Antique Dealers Association) who normally only show at the RDS.
Cobwebs Antique, Jewellery & Silver Galway Phyllis McNamara IADA (New)
Marie Curran Antique Jewellery & Silver Dublin IADA
Donegal Antiques, Beleek Killarney ware Silver Bog Oak etc IADA (New)
George Stacpoole, Limerick, President IADA
Moycullen Antiques, Co.Galway, IADA (New)
Maguires Antique Furniture, Co.Leitrim & Francis Street Dublin IADA
Hugo Greene Antique Furniture, Co.Leitrim & Francis Street Dublin IADA (New)
Gallery Zozimus, Francis Street, Dublin IADA
The Whitley Gallery, Co.Wicklow, IADA (New)
Kinsale Art Gallery, Co.Cork (New).
Treasures Irish Art, Athlone, Co.Westmeath IADA
Vanessa Parker Books, Co.Mayo IADA.
Weldon’s Silver & Jewellery, Clarendon Street, Dublin IADA
William Harnett Furniture, Newcastle West, Co.Limerick
George Moore, Quality Porcelain & China, London
Edward Guiney, Antique Furniture, Buttevant, Co.Cork
Desmond Gallagher, Silver & Objet D’art, Belfast
Kevin McCreesh, Clanrye Antiques, Newry, Co.Tyrone
Edward Mercier, Quality Smalls, Belfast
Eily Henry, Vintage Fashion & Accessories, Co.Waterford
Eddie McMahon, Co.Clare – Coins & Banknotes
Michael Cooley, Co.Laois – Coins & Banknotes
Sandra Hogan, Cork, Silver & Objet D’art
Maureen Kiely, Co.Laois, Silver & Objet D’art
Linda Paine, Co.Wicklow, Silver & Objet D’art
Further information: Robin O’Donnell (087) 693 3602
Or email: robinodon@gmail.com
The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation Ltd Art Sale at James Adams – Weds.3rd September, 2013
Judging from most of the offerings contained in Adams forthcoming sale http://www.adams.ie/The-Irish-Bank-Resolution-Corporation-Ltd-In-special-Liquidation-Art-Collection/03-09-2013?gridtype=listview from The Irish Bank Resolution Corporation, the bankers were as poor investors in Art as they were in running the banks. Amongst the works on offer there are pages of low grade abstract art prints (!) by Sean Scully, and mixed media by Felim Egan – both once very much in vogue with the intelligentsia of Corporate Ireland. In fairness, to Adams, they can only sell what’s before them but there’s mighty little worthy of wall space in the sale and I will await the results with interest. The six wonderful Pauline Bewick paintings stand out like beacons amongst the dross; there’s some value – and art – amongst the cheaper lots by lesser known artists. Paintings that you would enjoy looking at and showing off to your friends.
Above one of the finest paintings in the sale and below some overpriced office boardroom/hotel lobby fodder.
Fonsie Mealy’s Sale – A Gathering of All Things Irish – Dublin – Tuesday 23rd July 2013
A GATHERING OF ALL THINGS IRISH
950+ Lots including Historical documents, Artefacts, Books & Maps, GAA Medals & Memorabilia, Postcards, Bank Notes, Posters & other Ephemera.
On: Tuesday 23rd July, 2013 at 10.30am
At: The Clyde Court Hotel, Lansdowne Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin.4.
Viewing at the Castlecomer Salerooms:
Wednesday 17th July from 10.00am – 5.00pm
Viewing at the Clyde Court Hotel:
Sunday 21st July from 1.30pm – 7.00pm
Monday 22nd July from 10.30am – 7.30pm
Flip catalogue click here: 
Contact details for Viewing & Sale Days
(087) 2751 361 or (087) 2672 681 or (01) 238 2700
email: info@fonsiemealy.ie
New Antiques & Vintage Fair all set to go on Sunday 30th June at the Mount Wolseley Hotel, Tullow, Co.Carlow
The event is organised by Joan Murray of Antiques Fairs Ireland/Vintage Ireland.
Tel: (087) 267 0607 Web: www.vintageireland.eu
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