Antiques: From a luxury landau to a dugout chair, Durrow auction recalls bygone Ireland

Irish Examiner

03-05-2025

A stylish landau, a byword for luxury transport in days of yore and still maintained as a State coach in countries like Canada, Japan and the UK, comes up at Sheppard's sale in Durrow on Tuesday week (May 13).
The c1908 model, by John Marston's Carriage Works Ltd of Birmingham, with a classical low shell and cover that can be let down, is estimated at €8,000-€12,000.
A 1908 landau at Sheppard's.
With more than 700 lots, the auction offers deaccessioned material from a private museum dedicated to Irish transport and rural life and another focused on Irish domestic and agricultural heritage.
Along with an extensive range of horse-drawn vehicles, vernacular furnishings, agricultural tools, and architectural salvage, are sugan chairs, settle presses, and traditional utensils spanning farming and everyday life.
A rare 18th-century dugout ash chair at Sheppard's.
Among the highlights are a 1948 Jowett Javelin saloon, an original 19th-century penny farthing bicycle, a black E494A Ford Anglia two-door saloon, an early 19th-century painted pine settle press used as a prop in the filming of The Banshees of Inisherin and a rare 18th-century Irish ash dugout chair.