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A WOODEN REPLICA of the classic E-Type Jaguar used by Britain’s Prince Harry and Meghan Markle at their recent wedding sold for €4,000 as the contents of Café en Seine were auctioned off today.
The model car was one of just 3,000 items which was being sold at auction at the Heritage Hotel Killenard in Laois.
The wooden jaguar is two-thirds life size and comes complete with the sculpted front grill, detailed wheels and a perfect interior including a working wooden steering wheel.
“Anything decorative or a bit quirky is attracting big money,” said Niall Mullen who last year held the auction 0f the disposal of the contents of the Central Bank.
“The car is true in every detail, it’s an amazing folly and a stunning copy of the real thing.”
A set of 1940s petrol pumps converted into a cocktail cabinet, which sold for €7,500, and a pair of 12 ft-high birds, bronze cranes that fetched €4,500, were among the items attracting buyers attention.
A full-grown stuffed grizzly bear made €2,000, an original Elvery’s enamel sign from the late 19th century fetched €1,000 while a painting by Belfast artist Brian Ballard sold for €5,500.
Mullen added: “Café en Seine’s bronzes have been making well above their guide price, while the petrol pumps are a very unusual sculptural piece, and won the Late Late Show’s antiques restoration competition this year.”
Café en Seine is now owned by the Mercantile Group who plan a refurbishment in excess of €3m in a more modernist art deco-style.
The auction, which finishes tomorrow will feature many of the large statues and bronzes from Café en Seine.
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How the hell did it cost $1400 to build. You’d make that for 80 quid.
for 1400 he could have bought a mobile home or a serious tent/camper combo with gas cooker and electrics.
I’d say they journal forgot the decimal point.
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It should read $11.40
I hope so, otherwise that lad is a dope.
He used the same builder that put up the temporary housing units for €190,000 a pop……….
He could have used anything up to 8 sheets of marine plywood for this, add couple of tins of polish to give a good finish, it has timber internal framing too, given that hes an illustrator probably needed to buy a circular saw for couple of hundred, possibly had to buy his own bed and quilting. strip light could be 40-50 quid. Cost would add up easily enough.
A top of the range 12v leisure battery with trickle or automatic charger or even solar panels to keep his ‘lights’ on, a high end makita circular saw, the timber and ply if he replaced with oak, and if he polished it in gold dust (and that doesn;t look polished to me) wouldn’t cost him 1400
Sorry man, but that could be made for free. I think it’s an error in the article. If not, his rent is the least of his worries.
Just glanced at his blog and he did indeed pay 1300 to have it made. Talk about stupidity.
but how would you know how much things cost is SF ? Just asking.
I checked. It’s far cheaper than here. Googled the costs of materials. I also import tools and camping gear from the US regularly as it’s half the price of the UK.
Didn’t even get a lick of ronseal
Fair play – just asking. Maybe it includes land rent !!!
€1500 to live in a plywood crate? I have a barna shed he can have for a grand a month
He’s probably wondering why he hasn’t had any takers on his great idea. If he popped down to any industrial estate or any importers in SF, he would have got that for free. They would be more than happy for him to take it away.
He pays $400 to live there not 1500
And put it where Smeghead?
Put it on a campsite in san francisco for 10 dollars a night. Buy a camper for 1400.
It’ll be some craic in the pod when he has kids.
What’s the point, other than to fulfill some need for attention on social media?
Shared a room a few times in university/J1 etc. One room, two beds… No big deal. Plenty of people I know who grew up in the 80′s/90′s shared a room with a sibling. No one ever saw the need to build a ridiculous crate to live in.
I really don’t know how to take the current generation of 20 somethings and the way they carry on.
That’s true Drew, some of the places I shared in my college years would make the 20+ generation toes curl, one room with two beds, kitchenette in a corner of the room, and one had a shared bathroom and loo down the hall. It’d been much cheaper for him to go and buy a damn bed, oh and in no way did that thing cost 1400.
Your comment shows what are ridiculous nation we’ve become that apparently it hasn’t been acceptable for siblings to share a room since the 90′s. Don’t think we need to look to the US for ridiculousness.
is it unacceptable I wonder. Families are smaller I suppose as the cost of raising kids is now so high. Well for most of us anyway,
He may avoid the stout whilst living in that thing. One fart and he’s brown bread.
That’s why he put in the sky light.
Wanna come back to my pod?
Nevermind him, can you imagine having that in your sitting room! No one take any notice of the man in the box. It would just be so awkward
Hope the landlords don’t see this article b giving them ideas
If my missus sees this, that’s me done for !
Wife jokes are so 90′s
This was supposed to be posted yesterday I take it…?
I was written shortly after it appeared on Reddit ;)
It blows all the irish building regulations out the windows and health and safety will probably get toffee nosed about pod living too.
Jaysus my dogs kennel is nearly that size
rental opportunity !!!
W**k box
That’s existing. Just. Don’t show Alan Kelly. He will have us all back to tenements in no time.
Looks cosy.
Looks like what dob and edna would dream up to solve the housing crisis at a substancial cost to the taxpayer of course
Sure does anyone remember some of the adverts online over here ? Someone was actually advertising a bed for rent under the stairs in a house .
It would be funny if his mate put the couch in front of the entrance…nice chest of drawers behind the couch as well to give him a bit of a challange
Sure makes moving out of the parents home look ‘great’!
He won’t get his hole in there
Um fire hazard?
I hope he doesn’t get an Irish roommate. There’d be a firelog and a shovel of coal in on top of him
And the top of his box used as a bar counter.
80? With the bedding, the storage space, shelves/desk, the lights etc?
Yes. A saw, a measuring tape, and those are fairy lights operated by a simple battery most likely, the bedding you’d pick up in a second hand shop or second hand for peanuts. People dump stuff like that, nor a mind say sell it.
Tbh, it’s comical anyone would spend 1400 on a dog kennel. And a dog kennel would be better built than that yoke. I’d knock that together in 2-3 hours.
And I’d do it for free by picking up pallets.
Uhhhh yeah…
$20 for cheap used bedding… $800 to rid your apartment of bed bugs, or loose your security deposit.
Yeah Drew, cos landlords the world over are known to buy all their furniture brand new for lettings.
Does he have a rest room in there ?
Where’s Dave? Ah, he moved in to the sideboard…
America, the greatest country on earth? You wouldn’t have people living like this in the third world.
The Japanese would just love that accommodation.
“Workaholics who live in rabbit warrens”.
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What a tool
This was written and published just to shake the housing market a bit more in ireland….. that would be the next option for landlords trying to get more money for an apt
Man in a box right there
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