The Eclectic Collection sale at Whyte’s in Dublin on September 15 is the latest in this series of increasingly popular auctions. This one has almost 600 lots ranging from a Celtic Revival harp from Sydney, Australia to a copy of the Irish Proclamation to Bono’s schoolboy copy of Lord of the Flies. The catalogue is online and the auction is now on view. Here is a small selection:
UPDATE: THE GROSS TOTAL OF THE SALE CAME TO 420,000
Padraig Pearse chair from St. Enda’s School sold for 7,800 at hammer.
1916 (24 APRIL) THE PROCLAMATION OF THE IRISH REPUBLIC. AN ORIGINAL EXAMPLE OF THIS HISTORIC DOCUMENT. UPDATE: THIS WAS SOLD IN ADVANCE OF THE AUCTION FOR 100,000.
AN EARLY 20TH CENTURY CELTIC REVIVAL HARP BY JAMES MCFALL, BELFAST. (2,000-3,000) UPDATE: THIS MADE 2,000 AT HAMMER
1830S SIX VIEWS OF NEW YORK AND ITS ENVIRONS BY WH BARTLETT (300-400) UDATE: THIS WAS UNSOLD
In June 1919 the British aviators John Alcock and Arthur Brown made the first non-stop transatlantic flight from St. John’s, Newfoundland, to Clifden, Connemara in a modified First World War bomber which they crash landed in a field. Local man Jim Fawl removed a souvenir from the crash site, a wooden rib, probably part of an aileron. The piece of aviation history came to light almost one hundred years later on RTE’s National Treasures programme and has been on exhibition in the Museum of Country Life, Castlebar since then.
This very rare large Cizhou sgraffiatto jar dates from the Jin Dynasty (1154-1234) and will feature at a series of auctions at 
The Elizabeth Stafford Collection – the single owner collection of fine and decorative art from which Brancusi’s bronze Portrait of Nancy Cunard which made $71 million in May – comes up at 
As part of the ongoing dialogue over artificial intelligence and art 
