Poultry producers in Wales say their businesses are at risk following a ban on bird sales and shows to lessen the potential spread of avian flu.
Chris and Gene Taylor, who run one of the biggest auctions for breeders in Wales, said the ban cut trading by 80%.
“Birds are our livelihood,” said Mrs Taylor, who runs [...]

A US man accused of scamming almost $3.7 million from an order of nuns added so many extras to some of his cars and SUVs that it’s hard to set a value on them for a bankruptcy auction, the auctioneer says.
A Jaguar XJ8, a Cadillac Escalade and several Chevrolet Avalanches headline more than 40 cars, [...]

Georgian mahogany sofa table, £1,500; Italian scenes, 19th century black & white engravings, £1,250; country scenes, 19th century black & white engravings £1250; Marie Carroll, oil on board, £550; Valadie oil painting, £530; 19th century walnut secretaire abbatant, £400; pair 19th century gilt metal 6-light [...]

Collection of old guns, £500; old blunderbuss gun, £410; oil landscape, £320; Georgian barometer, £190; Victorian Scotch chest £190.

Mahogany cased grandfather clock, £520; inlaid walnut davenport, £460; mahogany dining table, £310; Edwardian china cabinet, £200; Georgian silver teapot, £170; Scotch chest of drawers, £150; oil painting on panel, £130; 9ct gold bracelet £130.

Three decades of work by Dublin born artist Jack Packenham, who has lived most of his life in Northern Ireland, come up for sale at Ross’s on Wednesday (7pm).

The only car the late Pope John Paul II ever owned sold at auction for $680,000 (383,445 pounds) on Saturday to a Houston attorney and car collector.
The car, which fetched much less than previous estimates of $2 million to $5 million, attracted four or five bids before being purchased by John O’Quinn, said a spokeswoman [...]

The Welsh Rugby Union is to take action against four more Welsh rugby clubs – over the sale of tickets to internationals on an online auction.
They are Loughor, Pontllanfraith, Narberth and Abercrave.
Rugby authorities in New Zealand and Australia are also being asked how some of their allocations ended up on sale.

London Irish became the first of the 12 Premier Rugby clubs to have its shares admitted to trading on ShareMark today (28th October).
Shares in London Irish Holdings Limited, the holding company of the Premiership rugby club, can be traded on ShareMark, the auction based market designed for small to medium-sized companies from today. Joining [...]

Galway Crystal confirmed this week that they are looking at the possibility of disposing of the Merlin Park site, following approaches from a number of developers interested in the attractively located property. However, while the company is keen to establish a realistic value for the site, directors of the firm said they have not made [...]

Including, diamond bracelet, £840; oil on board, sea study, £360; large collection of Royal Albert £330; diamond ring, £320; watercolour, girls on beach, £270; pair antique chairs and table £240.

Including, Unframed paintings, £640, £400, £300; six stuffed birds, £316; Geo. chest of drawers, £290; quantity of wooden handled tools, £155; pair of b/w prints, £175; oak dining table, £150.

Including, Colin Middleton’s ‘Belfast Gas Works’ went at £5,500 while Neil Shawcross’ ‘Still Life’ made £3,700. A bust of William Gray by Seamus Stoupe made £2,200 while Graham Knuttel’s ‘Black cat’ went at £2,000. Others included: ‘Port Muck,’ oil, £1,550; David Crone, oil, £875; Tom Carr, watercolour, £725; James Joyce ‘Death Mask’, £400.

The complete contents of ‘The Cairn’ on Upper Station Road will come under the hammer.
“This is a unique landmark dwelling set in some three acres of land and the contents of the house are exceptional says auctioneer George Gribben.
“As one would expect from such an important property there are many fine furniture pieces from the [...]

The Westmeath Examiner premises were sold at auction for a phenomenal €4.55m on Wednesday last, October 12th, after nearly eighty years’s publication from the site on Mullingar’s Dominick Street.
Coinciding with the relaunch of the paper in a new all-broadsheet, full-colour format, the large building, which stretches back to Grove Street, sold for nearly €1.5m over [...]