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‘We are happy with the price’: Music promoter Denis Desmond on buying Rory Gallagher’s guitar
Fender Stratocaster is acquired for more than €1 million at auction in London
Vintage movie posters and military items at the Battlefields & Silver Screens auction
Victor Mee sale includes 19th-century UVF rifle, while letters from George Bernard Shaw are among Irish-associated sales at Bonhams
Bonhams to hold its first ever Irish sale on Irish soil this month
With 57 offices worldwide, Dublin is now the 15th global selling location for the 230-year-old auction house
Choice Seamus Heaney works on sale would make for fine Father’s Day gifts
Signed first and limited editions of the Nobel laureate go under the hammer in Dublin and London
Silver fit for a king and Sybil Connolly’s mirror in Adam’s sale
William Scott and Sean Scully paintings on sale in London, plus cool Swedish chairs in Keighery’s sale
George Bernard Shaw’s thoughts on sex and Shakespeare to be sold
Correspondence between playwright and journalist Charles Hayden Church to be auctioned in London
Swerve fuel inflation on this magnificent 19th-century penny farthing
Nothing like a vintage bicycle; first edition of Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre also on sale
For sale: 4,000-year-old canoe could be yours for €2,400
Rev Conn Auld bought the canoe from some boys who were about to throw it on a bonfire
Records broken for Irish art in ‘thriving market’ of 2021
World records for Clarke’s Bluebeard’s Last Wife and Hone’s Composition
A teapot for €2.4m? You’ll need a cup of tea after buying that
Rare imperial Beijing piece from the 1700s, and sabre owned by Napoleon’s brother, sold at auction
Tom Hanks' Airstream trailer used during filming of Forrest Gump for auction
Silver bullet American Airstream estimated to fetch €210,000 at Bonham's
‘Newly discovered’ Lavery to be auctioned at end of June
The painting, In Morocco, has been in the same family collection since the 1930s
Final sales of the season leave auction buyers spoiled for choice
Signed copies of Joyce’s Ulysses and Wilde’s Poems, and works by Paul Henry to feature
First-edition Gulliver’s Travels expected to fetch close to €100k
Bonham’s also selling bust of Jonathan Swift and holding sale celebrating male form in art
Le Mayeur painting discovered in Dublin to be sold in Singapore
Indo-European artist’s painting to be sold by Bonhams
Letters from teenage WB Yeats and Tiffany diamonds: what’s coming up in auctions
Christmas rare book online sale to include first editions of De Profundis, Oscar Wilde
Jack B Yeats’ Romeo and Juliet to headline at de Veres’ upcoming sale
Auction will be first Irish sale to offer a body of work by bohemian artist Reginald Gray
Sotheby’s sale to feature further items from Michael Smurfit collection
Fine Art & Antiques auction results
Tiffany solitaire and Smurfit’s art: what’s coming up in art sales
London sale includes 12 works offered directly from the Yeats family
Andy Warhol’s ‘Cow’, Lord Byron’s garnet gifts sell well in July auctions
Fine Art & Antiques auction results
Coronavirus is disrupting the auction market. It could change it for good
Auctioneers and galleries are moving sales online, and finding art lovers prepared to bid
Photographs from Shackleton’s Endurance voyage in London sale
What sold in the sales rooms, and upcoming auctions and fairs
Markievicz describes Black and Tans as a force determined to ‘exterminate us’
Letter from the countess to a cousin in Australia emerges in London sale
Clean out and clean up by selling your valuables at auction
When it’s time to declutter antiques or art, auctioneers will often value free of charge
Going, going, gone: the top art and furniture sales of 2019
From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms
Sotheby’s €3.4m sale sets new records for Irish artists
Jack B Yeats paintings also perform well; 34 of his works are set to make auction debut
Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf
Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate
Chinese box sells for ten times estimate in busy auction week
Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs
Rare Irish silver, gold teeth and Jack B Yeats paintings: November auction rooms
Results and forthcoming auctions and fairs
Shells, Cohen’s bell and Paul Henry’s cottages: the best of the summer sales results
Artworks by Seán Keating and Louis le Brocquy sold high and there was a glimmer of hope for brown furniture in Bray
Family heirlooms, cameras and rare books: what’s coming up in the auction rooms
Diamond rings, watches by Cartier and Rolex included in 390 lots at John Weldon
What it went for: Auction results
Lynes and Lynes sale to include brass sundial by Daniel Voster and carved oak altar
What’s coming up in the auction rooms?
A Faberge hat pin, Waterford glass chandeliers and iconic fashion photograph
Auction results: Strong price for Rasher, drop in Louis le Brocquy
What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms
Runaway bids as 18th century box from Castletown Cox sells for €36,000
One of the first photographs of the moon taken in 1863 goes for €5,600
Forthcoming auctions: lots include Yeats typescript and African artefacts
Bonhams in London to auction signed draft of The Words upon the Window Pane
Shackleton sled and the fastest car in the world in February sales
Polar expedition memorabilia and an Irish tycoon’s car under the hammer
Auction results: Postcards from history and a stuffed baboon
What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms
Auction results and forthcoming sales
David Hockney sets record in London, Irish auction houses get set for seasonal sales
Sean Scully sets a record in London; silver carries the day at Adam’s
Auction results and forthcoming sales
Francis Ledwidge manuscript makes £16,250 at Bonhams in London
“Smoke Hignett’s” mirror achieves top price of €3,600 at Victor Mee auction
Auctions & Fairs: Autographed Ledwidge manuscript for auction in London
Jeffrey Archer’s collection of political cartoons include Irish interest
Views of Ceylon from a Belfast artist
Queen Victoria among the many admirers of 19th-century Irish artist Andrew Nicholl
Replica of Trump’s Oval Office desk in Castlecomer auction
Piece modelled on ‘Resolute’ desk made from British ship timbers has €1,500-€2,000 guide
Career highlights? Selling a Ming dish and the piano from Rick’s Café
Patrick Meade has sold everything from shipwreck treasure to showbiz memorabilia
Beattie opens new art advisory service
Former Bonhams executive Jane Beattie is striking out on her own
Bonhams appoints new representative in Ireland
Kieran O’Boyle leaves Adam’s to join international auction house
Chinese bronze turns to gold for Irish vendor in London auction
Figure depicting Chinese war god Guandi sells for £371,000 – 25 times top estimate
Life’s Work: Penny Day, head of Irish art, Bonhams, London
‘I’m secretly a bit of a petrol-head so a Lotto windfall might mean a vintage Jaguar’
Jack B Yeats painting not seen for 50 years to feature in London art sale
The Bonhams auction, which includes work by Paul Henry, Sir John Lavery, Roderic O’Conor and William John Leech, will have a Dublin viewing this week
The most beautiful cars in the world?
Mercedes-Benz made more than 80 years ago expected to sell for up to €7 million at auction
Rising ‘mugshots’ for sale
Rare police mugshots of Easter Rising rebels to be auctioned in London - but who is the 12th man?
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