Scope to rummage at auctions following  four house clearances 

Anyone for a dinner gong? Des O’Sullivan sees what’s on offer following four house clearances

A dinner gong at Matthews.

Something about house contents auctions brings on the urge to rummage.

Drawn from no fewer than four house clearances the catalogue for Matthews auctions in Kells, Co Meath, today and tomorrow offers plenty of scope for rummaging among everything from an antique dinner gong to gilded mirrors, garden fountains, silver-mounted mirrors and brushes, an Edwardian cake stand, boxes of books, porcelain and antique furniture.