Contents from Reidy's Wine Vault, Cork, and Kilkenny's Black Cat for auction

Contents from popular now-closed watering holes are up for auction, writes Des O'Sullivan

The interior of Reidy's Wine Vault bar to be sold by Lynes and Lynes.

Against a background where the market for collectibles is performing strongly, contents from popular and now-closed watering holes will come up at sales by Aidan Foley and Lynes and Lynes next week. Reidy's Wine Vault in Cork and The Black Cat in Kilkenny are the venues whose contents feature in the auctions.

Aidan Foley will hold three days of online sales with antiques, silver, art, automobilia and pub memorabilia this Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday at 6pm each day. Along with some contents from Kilkenny's Black Cat, there is art by Mabel Young, Carol Ann Waldron, Ivan Sutton, Markey Robinson and Sean Keating. 

Mabel Young's 'A Cottage in a Landscape' at Aidan Foley's sale.

The auction has a good selection of vintage forecourt signs, enamel signs, modern dealership signs and paraphernalia like oil cans, which are also in strong demand. The auction is on view in Doneraile over this Bank Holiday weekend.

The fine interior bar fittings from Reidy's Wine Vault at Lancaster Quay in Cork, which has been sold and is to become a restaurant, will come under the hammer as one lot at a sale by Denis Lynes on this day week (May 9). 

The bar counter, which measures over 29' in length, back bar, dividers, cabinets and light fittings is estimated at €70,000-€120,000. There will be a viewing on the premises next Wednesday (May 6) from 10am to 5pm. Just last March, the complete fittings from the West End Bar in Portadown, one of the oldest licensed premises in Co Armagh, made a hammer price of €120,000 at an auction by Victor Mee.