Bookcase is in ship shape

A breakfront bookcase from the White Star liner, Celtic, which foundered on rocks at the entrance to Cork Harbour in 1928, comes up at the Lynes and Lynes sale in Carrigtuohill, Co Cork, on Jan 26.

From the first-class library, the bookcase can be seen to the left in an old photograph. The image was taken by official Harland and Wolff photographer, Robert Welch, around the time the ship was fitted out in Belfast.

The four-door, breakfront mahogany and satinwood bookcase has unusual decorative glazing on the upper doors and marquetry inlay on the lower doors.