Unique opportunity for collectors as many pieces of Irish cottage furniture were exported in 1960s

What sold in the sales rooms, and upcoming auctions and fairs

Sotheby’s auction includes items from Luggala estate, Birr Castle and Carton House

From Chinese ‘sleepers’ to a record Yeats, it has been a busy year in Irish auction rooms

Banksy has last laugh as sale of his work nets whopping £1.2m

First edition Ian Fleming books in Cork; WB Yeats’s Irish Fairy and Folk Tales in Galway

Advertising memorabilia sale includes contents of a landmark Co Louth pub

Cars, bikes and motorcycles at Victor Mee; silver and figurines in Adam’s At Home sale

Victor Mee auction will include signed books by the Nobel prize-winning author

Furnishings from HMHS Britannic up for auction include crockery and oak panelling

What sold and what’s coming up in the auction rooms

Bonhams in London to auction signed draft of The Words upon the Window Pane

Jeffrey Archer’s collection of political cartoons include Irish interest

Fittings from Residence, Howl At The Moon and Clerys memorabilia in 3,000 lots

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 Jack B Yeats and Harry Kernoff among those going under the hammer in the coming days

Auctions, fairs and results