Auction Results: Monday (June 1st) Victor Mee Auctions on-the-premises sale of house contents at Emo House, Emo, Co Laois. A Georgian mahogany four-door library bookcase €14,000 (€10,000- €15,000); a pair of cased pistols presented to Robert Smith of Newtown, King's County (Offaly) made by Georgian Dublin gunsmiths McDermott €11,500 (€8,000-€12,000); an Irish mahogany George II open armchair (formerly in Belvedere House, Mullingar) €6,500 (€4,000- €6,000).

Forthcoming Auctions: Tomorrow, Sunday (June 7th) Matthews Auction Rooms will hold a ("well- signposted") on-the-premises executors' sale in Belturbet, Co Cavan, at the home of the late Hugh Kenna at 2.30pm.

Monday Milltown Country Auction Rooms, Dromiskin Dundalk, Co Louth. Antiques auction at 5pm.

Correction: The report last Saturday inadvertently described the €260,000 achieved at Sheppard's auction for a Chinese jade seal as "the highest price achieved in any Irish fine art and antiques saleroom in 2015". It was, in fact, the second highest. In February, a "Native American" outfit sold for €320,000 at Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers.