Fine Arts: Items from Ticher’s Irish silver collection on sale at Bonham’s

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A set of George II cast silver candlesticks (£3,000-£4,000) is among the items from the late Peter Ticher’s Irish silver collection at Bonham’s Home & Interiors Sale on March 29-30. Picture: Karl Bartley

For Irish collectors, the main attraction in Bonham’s Home and Interiors Sale in London this week is Irish silver from the Collection of the late Peter Ticher. A selection of pieces from his important collection sold at Bonham’s last year for £87,678.

An 18th-century Irish silver cream jug (£500-£600)

Many pieces were inherited from his father, Dr Kurt Ticher, who with his wife, Ellen, emigrated from Germany to Ireland in the 1920s, settled in Dublin ...