What’s sold, what’s coming up in the salerooms

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

Small violin and bow with no label a €1,500 sleeper at Mullen’s auction

David Hockney sets record in London, Irish auction houses get set for seasonal sales

What’s sold and what’s coming up

Issue number one of ‘Playboy’ with Marilyn Monroe on the cover sells for £4,000 (€4.5k)

Sparklers galore shine at first Dublin jewellery auctions of 2018

Early gold sovereign proves its value, but jewellery worth less than original prices paid

‘Emigrants Scene’ by Jack B Yeats, just seven inches high by nine inches wide, made €700

Diamonds, vintage emeralds and a block of silver among star lots

Temptation for the ‘Eclectic Collector’, plus jewellery, country house contents and attic clearances

Taxidermy lots include a Greater Kudu spiral-horned antelope and a bull water buffalo

Sparkling sales at Weldon’s and clearance sale at All Hallows

‘I held my first auction on 9/11’

Ships’ models, a diamond spray and Georgian garden seats all exceeded their estimates

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

A court document dated 1775 concerning Elvis Presley’s Co Wicklow ancestor William Presley for €2,300

Collection expected to sell between €10,000 and €20,000 at John Weldon Auctioneers

Paper money, a jade-set butterfly and a preview of Bonhams highlights

A copy of the Proclamation, photographs of Roger Casement, a bottle of 1916 whiskey and Éamon de Valera's prison diary sell at Whyte's

Paintings by Roderic O’Conor, William Leech, Sir John Lavery and Paul Henry all sell; Irish silver and march hares on the market

Extremely rare Irish Ormonde Money gold coin is star lot in London

Framed Blackrock College union golden jubilee dinner menu signed by Éamon de Valera for sale by Matthews at €1,000-€1,500

Mementoes from first World War soldiers include brass boxes with tobacco and cigarettes presented as Christmas presents for the troops at the request of Princess Mary

A vast array of antique and modern pieces in all price ranges will go under the hammer