Highlights of sales at Knockboyne House and Erindale House include Chinese carvings, Edwardian satinwood bookcases and peat buckets
WB Yeats’s signature ‘pince-nez’ glasses make €10,000 – more than 16 times the estimated price
Photographic stills from the film ‘The Quiet Man’ more than double the estimate
Late 17th century Brussels tapestry makes €26,500, almost three times the top estimate (€6,000-€9,000)
From Roger Casement’s Kerry treasure map to Queen Victoria’s split drawers
A 1914 Talbot Invincible vintage car sells for €35,000
Ships’ models, a diamond spray and Georgian garden seats all exceeded their estimates
Three Beit Old Masters sold at Christie’s in London, including a Rubens for £1.3m
The auction features some 400 lots, including antique furniture, a Victorian pipe organ, a confession box, religious prints and statues
Paper money, a jade-set butterfly and a preview of Bonhams highlights
James Bond memorabilia at Christie’s, fine period interiors at Adam’s and a Dublin book fair to look forward to
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