Period homes set to reveal their treasures at auction

Highlights of sales at Knockboyne House and Erindale House include Chinese carvings, Edwardian satinwood bookcases and peat buckets

Vintage Irish ads sale: From Aer Lingus-flying turkeys to Santa’s Tayto

Wide range of historical Irish advertising material from single collector at Sheppard’s

Count John McCormack’s bed, pub ephemera and 1911 specimen coins for sale

Results and forthcoming auctions

Photographs from Shackleton’s Endurance voyage in London sale

What sold in the sales rooms, and upcoming auctions and fairs

Get Christmas all wrapped up at upcoming eclectic fine art sales

Children’s sleighs, dioramas and vintage handbags make for a classy shopping list

Magic carpet result in London, Cartier gems in Clontarf

Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate

Treasures from Kennys Bookshop and 40 pieces of silver

Roscrea sale offers lots from several large houses and Galway bookseller’s warehouse

Strong prices for Waterford Crystal and U2’s first press pack

Auctions, results and fairs dates for your diary

What it went for: auction results

Adam’s Important Irish Art Sale to include a substantial work by Sean Keating

What’s coming up in the auction rooms?

A Faberge hat pin, Waterford glass chandeliers and iconic fashion photograph

Painting of ‘Black and White Coffee Pot’ by William Scott fetches €65,000 at de Veres

Diamond ring makes €73,900 at John Weldon

Auctions & Fairs

PJ Mara’s desk and bronze statue of Brendan Behan in Adams’ Blackrock auction

Console tables make €48,000 at Sheppard’s Coolattin House auction

Late 17th century Brussels tapestry makes €26,500, almost three times the top estimate (€6,000-€9,000)

What it went for: auction and fair results