Antiques: Clock and gramophone turn back time at Cork auction

Viewing in Carrigtwohill on Saturday, June 29, for Lynes & Lynes sale featuring many collector's items. Auction takes place on July 6

Left, the James Aikin clock and right, the oak-case gramophone at the Lynes & Lynes auction.

Offering everything from a fine old Cork clock in need of full restoration and seascapes by Erwin Charles Gunther to an antique oak-cased gramophone and a pair of Chinese foo dogs modelled as lamps, the sale at Lynes & Lynes on Saturday, July 6, is brimful of specialist interest.

Viewing gets underway in Carrigtwohill this weekend, on Saturday, June 29, for a 372-lot auction made up of the remaining part of the estate of the late Roma Peare (nee Knox) of Kinsale, Co Cork, a residence at Templenoe, Kenmare, Co Kerry, and a house at Beaumont Avenue in Cork.