A leather water bottle belonging to explorer Robert O’Hara Burke has fetched more than a quarter of a million dollars at auction in Melbourne.
The $286,750 sale price was more than three times what the artefact was expected to fetch.
Sotheby’s had originally estimated the water bottle would sell for between $60,000 and $80,000.
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A 32 ACRE mixed use commercial development site located at Outer Ring Road and Airport Road, Waterford sold for a remarkable €45m at a Sherry FitzGerald Purcell auction yesterday.
The site, offered for sale on the instructions of Waterford City Council, is regarded as the best commercial development site ever to come for [...]

Copies of Friday and Saturday’s special editions of the Belfast Telegraph marking the life and times of football legend George Best are selling for £2 on internet auction site eBay.
Eleven copies of the papers, which include pages of tributes to Ulster’s much-loved son from many of those who knew him both on and off the [...]

The ink press used to take the fingerprints of the 14 Irish martyrs of the Easter Uprising in 1916 shortly before their secret executions goes under the hammer at Ludlow, Shropshire (England) next month.
 
Housed in its original 12×10×6ins wooden casket, it is clearly identified by a metal memorial plaque on the lid, listing each of [...]

Including a platinum and diamond solitaire ring topped the prices at £2,400 followed by a mahogany Queen Anne telescopic table at £1,250 and a Victorian two door bookcase at £980.
Other lots: cased double weight keyhole Vienna clock £460; Jack Pakenham - Winter Landscape, £460.
Ross’s Basement: Victorian mahogany two door bookcase, £950; diamond bar [...]