Sunday (October 23rd): de Veres, art auction, D4Berkeley Hotel, Dublin 4 – 70 per cent of lots sold for €85,000. Cottage Interior by Robert Taylor Carson €2,600 (€2,000-€4,000); Tree in Baggot Street by Patrick Collins €2,600 (€2,000-€4,000); Hare in Marram Grass by Margo Banks €2,400 (€800-€1,200); Coloured Wall (print) by Séan Scully €1,800 (€1,400-€1,800); Forbidden Fruit by Graham Knuttel €1,800 (€2,000-€3,000).

Woodview House Antiques, Ballycarney, Enniscorthy, Co Wexford: Victorian furnished doll’s house by Lines Bros for the Earl of Courtown’s daughter €1,100 (€1,500-€2,000).

Hegarty Antiques and Fine Art Auction Rooms, Bandon, Co Cork – 75 per cent of 473 lots sold. William IV rosewood fold-over card table €1,050 (€1,200-€1,800); six Victorian rosewood dining chairs €900 (€1,000-€1,500); East India Company School watercolour of gunner in Maharaja Ranjit Singh’s army €600 (€200-€300); Chinese vase with six-character iron red Guangxu mark €600 (€800-€1,200).

Tuesday (October 25th):Christie's, London – The Silver Apples of the Moon, watercolour, by Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh £115,250 (£50,000-£70,000).

Tuesday and Wednesday (November 1st and 2nd):Ashgrove Auction Rooms, Ballybrittas, Portlaoise, Co Laois – sale of some 1,800 lots of antiques, fine art, silver and quality collectibles. Auction each day starts at 4.30pm. Viewing tomorrow and bank-holiday Monday from 2pm-6pm at the salesroom.

Sunday (Nov 6th):Matthews Auction Rooms, sale of the contents of Coolatore House, Moate, Co Westmeath, at noon. Viewing on site next Friday at 1am. The house was rented by Michael Jackson for five months and some of his personal effects are included in the sale.

Today (and daily until November 6th):Boro Books Festival Book Fair, 5 Common Quay Street, Wexford, 11am-6pm.

Tomorrow:Kerry Antiques and Art Fair, Carlton Hotel, Tralee, Co Kerry, 11am-6pm.

Monday (October 31st):Antiques and Collectibles Fair, Kingston Hotel, Adelaide Street, Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin, from 11am-6pm.