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

Final anniversary auction of 1916 memorabilia

The ‘lost’ Caravaggio, and the Irish woman who bought it

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

Italian sculpture and Wolfe Tone fireplace the marble stars in Kilkenny auction

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

Cashing in on 1916 memorabilia

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

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