Sale has everything from shotguns to designer drawers

Sheppard's three-day auction rounds up an array of more than 1,300 rare lots

Left, A pair of 12-bore, back action shotguns, and right, a designer fabric-upholstered chest of drawers, a Sheppard's auction.

A pair of cased 12-bore back-action Holland and Holland shotguns and a pair of 19th-century Sèvres guinea fowl which it would be downright foolish to shoot, are among appetising offerings at a three-day auction in Durrow, Co Laois.

The sale, organised by Sheppard’s Irish Auction House on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, also features a late 17th-century Aubusson tapestry, a pair of Regency Cork side tables from the dispersal sale at Kilkenny Castle, and a Duleek Irish carpet.