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From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms
Ming vase fetched €610,000 at Sheppard’s sale – almost €500,000 over estimate
Recent results and forthcoming auctions and fairs
Horse-drawn carriage owned by the late Hollywood star set for Sheppards auction
Advertising memorabilia sale includes contents of a landmark Co Louth pub
Theme of natural world features in forthcoming auctions
What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms
Art, jewellery, furniture and vintage items on the block in Dublin, Waterford and Laois
Charles Howard-Bury’s life reads like a series of ripping yarns from ‘Boy’s Own’
Miss McAlister’s collection contains an early edition of Darwin’s ‘On the Origin of Species’ plus much, much more
Winning bidder for Anglo-Irish antique dildo believed to be private collector from US
This ‘ladies companion’ from an Anglo-Irish family is to be auctioned in Co Meath
Taxidermy lots include a Greater Kudu spiral-horned antelope and a bull water buffalo
Fine Georgian furniture, paintings and a pair of stone sphinxes from Helen Dillon’s garden also feature
A Meissen porcelain ewer, circa 1880, fetches €12,000 in Kilkenny
A kilo of silver makes three times its estimate at John Weldon Auctioneers
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