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Look what Martin Fennelly Antiques has put up for sale on-line: <a href='http://www.fennelly.net/Item.aspx?id=21240'>411 Sold Irish Bog Oak Hand Carved Owl - Cornelius Goggin Dublin Ireland</a> <img src='/images/no_image.jpg' alt='411 Sold Irish Bog Oak Hand Carved Owl - Cornelius Goggin Dublin Ireland'/> <p class="Paragraph SCXW156120529 BCX2" style="font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: transparent; color: windowtext; text-align: center; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; text-indent: 0px;" lang="EN-US"><span style="color: rgb(0, 51, 0); font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; font-size: 13pt; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; line-height: 22.6625px;" data-contrast="none" class="TextRun SCXW156120529 BCX2" lang="EN-US"> Fine and Rare Hand Carved Irish Bog Oak Figural Owl of Museum Quality and medium proportions, The quality and crispness of the carving means we can firmly attribute this to Cornelius Goggin, Carver to the Queen and based at Nassau Street Dublin. Made during the Mid Nineteenth Century.&nbsp;<span class="EOP SCXW156120529 BCX2" style="font-size: 13pt; line-height: 22.6625px; font-family: Arial, Arial_EmbeddedFont, Arial_MSFontService, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 51, 0);" data-ccp-props="{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}">&nbsp;
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