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Sunday 3 July 2022
The estimated sale price was less than half of that.
A woman bought the bag at an auction.
The painting of a skull-like head in oil-stick was valued pre-sale in excess of $60 million.
It’s a realistic Ivory penis.
“To my knowledge, the bidder hasn’t seen the picture in the flesh, so to speak,” says James O’Halloran of Adam’s Auctioneers.
The vessel has a long and distinguished service record.
“This was Hitler’s mobile device of destruction.”
It’s owner says he longer feels an obligation to keep it here.
The sale, which was expected to fetch between €700,000 and €900,000, broke records for the highest sale for a single cartoon drawing.
The Department of Arts says buying the letter would “not be the best use of taxpayers’ money”.
It’s a rare piece of comic book history.
The world-famous artist Peter Doig said he did not create the desert landscape painting.
The three-time World Cup winner is selling more than 2,000 items of personal memorabilia in London this week.
The currency is now valued at €477 per coin, matching the valuation it had back in August 2014.
Protests erupted in the US over the shooting of the unarmed black teenager in 2012.
A film mogul splashed out a record amount of money for the letter, which is 124 characters long.
The account was later deleted.
The website has not said why.
He had described the mood after the news broke earlier this month as “like the day after a funeral”.
The special centenary auction has over 600 items available to be bought.
The property is situated near the Burren and not too far from the Cliffs of Moher.
The document is one of two original copies up for sale this weekend.
The letter is part of a Beatles rock ‘n roll memorabilia auction.
The four-inch lock of hair was purchased by a UK-based memorabilia collector.
Letters written by former British government minister Brendan Bracken are among over 750 historic lots up for sale at an auction in Dublin later this month.
The dress was the highlight of a sale of nearly 400 pieces of Hollywood memorabilia sold yesterday.
The sale is a record price for any jewel at auction.
It once belonged to John Lennon, in fairness.
Dave Gallaher was born in Ramelton, Donegal.
The running shoes were expected to reach somewhere between £30,000 and £50,000.
But Mickey Mantle baseball cards are still the hottest property stateside.
… but there’s an October deadline to come up with other philanthropic alternatives to keep the paintings is Ireland.
There have been calls for the board of the foundation to be dissolved.
An Taisce has been granted leave to take a judicial review of the granting of the export licences of the Beit paintings.
The postcards capture what life was like in Dublin all those years ago.
A collector’s item, surely.
Five masterpieces, including two Rubens, are to go up for auction to raise funds for the upkeep of Russborough House in Wicklow.
THE COST OF living crisis is not going anywhere and looks set to get worse and worse.
At the launch of the St Vincent De Paul’s pre-Budget submission this week, Liam – a long-time volunteer with the charity – spoke about the sharp end of the crisis when describing his experience meeting with families who live in a hotel.
“When you’re dealing with parents who are in tears and are living in a one or two-bedroom hotel, it’s very difficult as a member of Vincent DePaul to help those families,” he said, adding that he believed there is now an acceptable level of poverty in Ireland.
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