Antiques: Fabergé frogs and vintage views in the frame 

Photographs, silver, furniture and jewellery are all in the picture at Hegarty's sale in Bandon

A carved agate Fabergé frog at Hegarty's.

There is much more to an album of old photographs than an album of old photographs. 

It is too easy nowadays to overlook the technical difficulties and arduous processes faced by picture pioneers. Our late 19th-century photographers captured a long-vanished utterly different Ireland — unspoilt by pollution, unworried about global warming and artificial intelligence — with great skill and determination.