Gallery: Guinness family auction tipped for success

Fine Irish furniture, an antique pierced steel helmet reputedly owned by Sir Thomas Wentworth, the harp owned by Derek Bell of The Chieftains, and a set of bagpipes used at Fenian gatherings in West Cork gives some idea of the range and breadth of the Guinness family collections to be sold in Naas today.

Gallery: Guinness family auction tipped for success
Tue, 06 Oct, 2015 - 01:00
Des O’Sullivan

The contents of Furness, home of Patrick and Louise Guinness at Naas, will be offered at Killashee Hotel in the Co Kildare town at 10.30am.

Patrick, son of Desmond and Mariga Guinness, is the president of the Irish Georgian Society and he is downsizing.

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