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 [...]

Including Victorian gallery back sideboard, £350; mirror back sideboard, £280; w/c drawing signed Morrison, £190; carved walnut hall chair, £170; 6 walnut dining chairs, £160; telescopic dining table, £160.

A souvenir from a BBC Northern Ireland journalist’s dive to the final resting place of the Titanic has raised £590 for Children in Need.
Environment correspondent Mike McKimm trailed three polystyrene cups in a net outside the submersible which took him down 12,850 feet to the wreckage in the North Atlantic.
The huge water pressure [...]

One of Galway’s oldest bakeries, Griffin’s on Shop Street, has been put up for sale, with a guide price of €10 million.
The 5,048 square feet site, located beside The King’s Head and backing onto Middle Street will be sold as a redevelopment site.Griffin’s has been trading in Galway since 1876 and has served breads, cakes [...]

Microsoft Corp.’s scarce new Xbox 360 has sold out at most stores with many new owners flipping the video game consoles by the thousands on Web auction site eBay Inc. for almost twice the retail price. Big retailers, including Best Buy Co. Inc. (BBY.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and Target Corp. [...]

While eBay claims less than .01 percent of eBay transactions are fraudulent, being victimized is still painful – no matter how rare it is.
A bit of due diligence by bidders will help buyers avoid problems.These eight tip offs of potential fraud will help eBay shoppers avoid scams during the Holiday buying season.
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A Roy Keane Manchester United jersey has been sold at a charity auction in Cork for €4,000.The former Irish skipper has donated one of his last Man United shirts to the church he was baptized in to help generate funds for renovations to the building.

Including East Antrim Cup £4,000; Killultagh Cup £2,400; McCloy, oil painting, £510; 19th century oak long case hall clock with circular white dial, £480; 18ct white gold diamond earrings, £400.

Currently there are over 3000 Xbox 360 items for sale on eBay with items ranging from 1 cent for an Xbox 360 email address, to a place in the pre-order queue for $850.00 to $1275 US for an Xbox 360 Bundle which includes peripherals and eleven games.
Xbox 360 launches in Ireland on 2nd December.

The oldest All-Ireland football medal known to exist (1887) has sold at auction in London for three times its guide price.
The gold medal won by man-of-the-match Malachi O’Brien at the first ever All-Ireland football final fetched €26,500 at Sotheby’s this morning.
Commercials of Limerick beat Young Irelands of Louth in the 1887 final, which was actually [...]

A Dalek used to portray the leader of Dr Who’s arch enemy has sold for £36,000 at Bonhams in London.
Painted in blue, silver and black and used as Dalek Supreme, it featured on the Radio Times cover in 1983 to mark the 20th anniversary of the BBC show.