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18 Oct 2018
€430,000 on the table Lord Inchiquin sells Armada antique at auction
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PÁRAIC McMAHON
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TABLE constructed in part from the wood from the wreck of a Spanish Armada ship from 1588 sold for €360,000 at Adams Auction on Tuesday. When the buyer’s commission of 20 percent along with VAT were included,
the total cost for the successful bidder was over €430,000. Its guide price prior to auction was between €100,000 and €200,000. It is not yet known if the table, which was made for the High Sheriff of Clare in Dromoland Castle, will remain in Ireland. Details of the buyer have not been made public as of yet but the bidder was present at the auction in Drogheda. In the autumn of 1588 as many as 27 ships of the Spanish Armada were lost off the Irish coast, two of them were lost off the shores of west Clare. After their sinking the timber from the ships started to come ashore. The high sheriff of Clare recovered some of the decorative carvings from the galleon which were then made into a 3m table. The table was at Dromoland Castle, home of the O’Brien, clan for over 300 years until it was moved to Bunratty Castle in the 1960s.
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