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    ARTWORK SIGNED BY ALL FOUR BEATLES MAKES $1.7 MILLION

    Friday, February 2nd, 2024
    THE BEATLES, 1966 – Images of a Woman. Courtesy Christie’s Images Ltd.

    This painting – made and signed by all four Beatles – sold for $1,744,000 at Christie’s Exceptional Sale in New York. This is one of the highest sums ever paid for a piece of Beatles memorabilia. The sale of the best in decorative and applied arts, works of historic importance and iconic objects of pop culture brought in $6.7 million with bidding from around the globe. A 1965 Gretsch Chet Atkins country gentleman hollow body electric guitar once owned by Elvis Presley sold for $302,400.

    ECLECTIC COLLECTOR AUCTION TOTALS 240,000+

    Monday, May 16th, 2016

    A War Code Irish £20 note from 1944 sold for

    A War Code Irish £20 note from 1944 sold for 9,500

    A ten pounds 1939 banknote was the top lot at Whyte’s Eclectic Collector sale in Dublin.  It made 10,500 in a sale which totaled more than 240,000.  No less than 30% of lots went to online bidders.  The Elvis Presley ancestor’s document of a court case in Co. Carlow went to a collector in Wicklow. It sold for 2,300.  The underbidder was an institution in Co. Carlow. A 2d perforated stamp sold for 10,000 and a Central Bank of Ireland Lady Lavery banknote from 1944 with the war code sold for 9,500.

    A collection of 12 Co. Cork GAA medals going back to 1889 sold for 5,400.  A rare trial piece 20 pence coin from 1985 sold for 4,800 to a collector in Texas. A British Empire George IV stamp collection in seven volumes sold for 4,000 to a collector in Gloucestershire.  Whyte’s are already planning another collectors sale for next September 17.

    (See posts on antiquesandartireland.com for May 6 and April 25, 2016)

    ELVIS: THE IRISH CONNECTION

    Monday, April 25th, 2016

    The court transcript signed by William Presley.

    The court transcript signed by William Presley.  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR 2,300

    The Irish connection to Elvis Presley goes back a way, but documentary evidence crops up at Whyte’s Eclectic Collector auction in Dublin on May 14.   In August 1775 William Presley, a farmer, got all shook up after being attacked by a group of men in Hacketstown in Co. Carlow.  Presley pursued his assailants through the courts.  The result of the case is unclear but the court transcript of his statement before the magistrate is offered as lot 125 of the sale, estimated at 500-700.

    Later in 1775 William Presley left Ireland and travelled with his son Andrew to New Orleans.  In 1780 William and his family were living in Carolina and a son, Dunnan, was born to him.  They moved to Tennessee a year later and William died there in 1802.  Dunnan married twice.  His third son, also Dunnan, was born in 1827.  In 1863 Dunnan juniors daughter Rosella was born.  She never married, but had several children, among them a son called Jesse Presley. In 1913 he married Minnie Mae and their son Vernon Elvis Presley was born in 1916.  Vernon married Gladys Love Smith in 1933 and their son Elvis Presley was born in January 1935.

    ROCK ICONS BY JULIEN’S AUCTIONS IN NEW YORK IN MAY

    Friday, April 8th, 2016

    From Elvis to Bowie, Lady Gaga to Duran Duran, the Rock Icons sale by Julien’s Auctions at the Hard Rock Cafe in Times Square, New York on May 21 covers a lot of rich ground.  Hundreds of pieces of iconic rock n’ roll memorabilia will go under the hammer in a live and online sale.   The biggest musical icons of our time are included.  Here is a small selection:

    ELVIS PRESLEY’S GIBSON DOVE GUITAR ($200,000-300,000)

    ELVIS PRESLEY’S GIBSON DOVE GUITAR ($200,000-300,000)  UPDATE: THIS SOLD FOR $334,000

    LADY GAGA’S FIRST CHILDHOOD PIANO ($100,000-200,000)

    LADY GAGA’S FIRST CHILDHOOD PIANO ($100,000-200,000)

    A 1966 Gretsch Tennessean bass guitar used by John Taylor in Duran Duran’s hit 2004 music video “REACH UP FOR THE SUNRISE. ($10,000-20,000)

    A 1966 Gretsch Tennessean bass guitar used by John Taylor in Duran Duran’s hit 2004 music video “REACH UP FOR THE SUNRISE. ($10,000-20,000)

    "From Nahodka Westward by Train," painted in 1994 by David Bowie and Beezy Bailey ($20,000-25,000)

    “From Nahodka Westward by Train,” painted in 1994 by David Bowie and Beezy Bailey ($20,000-25,000)