Fonsie Mealy’s sale features a bed thought to have been owned by Napoleon’s wife

A collection of dolls’ houses once owned by writer Graham Green’s wife Vivien are to be sold along with miniature furniture

Copy signed by James Joyce is from the earliest print run of the world renowned book

One of the first photographs of the moon taken in 1863 goes for €5,600

Early version of ‘The Meeting on the Turret Stairs’ makes €24,000 in Kilkenny auction

Artist is unknown but auctioneers believe it is Flemish School and dates from 16th or 17th century

Voted Ireland’s favorite painting, the artist, Sir Frederic William Burton, worked on a draft that is now for sale

WB Yeats’s signature ‘pince-nez’ glasses make €10,000 – more than 16 times the estimated price

Yet more items are to be auctioned as the family reaps a multi-million euro windfall

Auction results

Convent stained glass among 1,000 lots at Fonsie Mealy auction

Portrait of Down-born lord chief justice of England goes for £45,000 above estimate

Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the auction house . . . A first edition of Jaws and a drawing by its author are snapped up

How a retired book-collecting Sligo GP managed to get a copy of DH Lawrence’s banned book while still at school

A kilo of silver makes three times its estimate at John Weldon Auctioneers

Husband’s assassination – ordered by Michael Collins – in a revenge attack for his role in suppressing the Rising prompted grieving widow to donate painting to priest

A 5ft tall sculpture and a fireplace made strong prices, and the original fire surround, looted from Woodstock House before it was torched, sold for €2,500

Whyte’s, Adams and Fonsie Mealy are holding major auctions of 1916 artefacts

Auctioneers confidence restored as demand returns

Grandfather clock once worth €500,000 that plays ‘God Save the Queen’ up for auction

Pocket book of 18th-century Prince of Wales among Furness House lots for sale on Tuesday

There were strong prices and big surprises at the Chatsworth sale at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers

1901 All-Ireland football medal awarded to Dublin captain David ‘Gush Brady’ estimated at €1,500-€2,000

A race card for the ‘Martell’ Grand National on April 3rd, 1993, signed by all the jockeys, is a reminder of the race that officially never took place

Cutlery belonging to Anglo-Irish satirist and a portrait of Obama ancestor among mememtos of Ascendancy in fine art sale

Copies can sell for thousands but why does the price vary so much?

South Dublin children’s private account of aristocratic life in Edwardian Ireland portrayed in rare ‘monthly magazine’

The bleak memento has turned up at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers

Nickey Rackard’s medal makes €17,500 - a record at auction, while mugshots make over estimate

Memento of 1950s Wexford hurling star is top lot in auction of sports and history memorabilia at Mealy’s

€250,000 spent at rare books auction in Ballsbridge