Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers

Garech Browne’s silver, vintage cars and rare art in Fonsie Mealy sale

Lots from estates of British textile designer Bernard Nevill and explorer Erica de Bary

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

Chinese artefacts keep coming to Irish salerooms – and collectors follow

Rare and unsual incense burners set for sale in Co Laois

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

A Yeats love story in a trunk comes to light – and to market

A Victorian trunk inscribed with the name Jack B Yeats held sentimental mementos including the artist’s wife’s wedding shoes

Yes tonight Josepine: Empress’s bed could be yours for €2,000 plus

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

Dolls’ houses: it’s a small world at Fonsie Mealy Castlecomer sale

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

Ulysses first edition to auction for between €70,000 and €90,000

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

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

Auctions & Fairs – Triptych by Francis Bacon goes for £10m at Christie’s

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

Crucifixion painting expected to make up to €15,000 in Kilkenny sale

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

Love the Meeting on the Turret Stairs? A draft version can be yours

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

Auctions – The Final Chapter of the Yeats Family Collection

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

WB Yeats’s trademark glasses for sale at €500-€600

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

Irishman’s Zulu War medal and church windows sell for well over estimates

Auction results

Bag an old church window in summer sale

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

Auction results and upcoming fairs

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

The original Jaws resurfaces in Sligo

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

First edition of banned Lady Chatterley’s Lover goes on sale today

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

What it went for: auction and fair results

Auction results and forthcoming sales

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

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