Period homes set to reveal their treasures at auction

Highlights of sales at Knockboyne House and Erindale House include Chinese carvings, Edwardian satinwood bookcases and peat buckets

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

Forthcoming Auctions & Fairs

Photographic stills from the film ‘The Quiet Man’ more than double the estimate

Console tables make €48,000 at Sheppard’s Coolattin House auction

Late 17th century Brussels tapestry makes €26,500, almost three times the top estimate (€6,000-€9,000)

Life’s Work: Denis Lynes, antiques auctioneer, Cork

Train your eye before investing in antiques

Upcoming auctions and results

Ten weird and wonderful lots that sold at auction in 2016

From Roger Casement’s Kerry treasure map to Queen Victoria’s split drawers

Auctions & Fairs: results and forthcoming events

A 1914 Talbot Invincible vintage car sells for €35,000

Auction results and fairs

Auction results and forthcoming sales

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

Auction results and forthcoming sales

Three Beit Old Masters sold at Christie’s in London, including a Rubens for £1.3m

Contents of Doon convent in Limerick to be auctioned

The auction features some 400 lots, including antique furniture, a Victorian pipe organ, a confession box, religious prints and statues

What it went for: auction results

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

What it went for: auction highlights

James Bond memorabilia at Christie’s, fine period interiors at Adam’s and a Dublin book fair to look forward to