Antiques: Buyers and sellers' successful online moves 

World of antique furniture, art and collectibles is showing signs of rude good health, says Des O'Sullivan

'The Queen's Hotel, Queenstown' by Walter Richards made €1,500 at Woodwards.

The first book by an Irish author to write for a printing press, a set of seven Windsor chairs in elm, a circular wine cooler and a painting of The Queen's Hotel, Queenstown (now the Commodore Hotel, Cobh), are the sort of unusual or rare lots that excited much interest among collectors in Ireland in 2020.

This set of seven Windsor chairs in elm sold for €3,100 at Lynes and Lynes.