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Bidders in an internet auction are offering over 13,000 euros (9,000 pounds) for a wartime German encoding machine, similar to ones whose messages were cracked by British code breakers in World War Two.
The portable Enigma encryption machine made in 1941 has a keyboard and a series of rotors designed to scramble messages. It [...]

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A HARBOROUGH auction house was the star of the small screen when programme-makers for television show Flog It visited.
A TV crew recorded an auction at Gildings in Roman Way on Tuesday as part of the BBC2 show, to be aired in about six months’ time. The auction drew a crowd of about 300.
In [...]

Sligo Fianna Fail Senator, Eamon Scanlon, has clashed with Senator Shane Ross over his claims that the auctioneering profession in Ireland consists of a bunch of cowboys and racketeers.
Senator Scanlon, himself an auctioneer, has rejected the claims made by Senator Ross in a speech to the Seanad.
Senator Ross called on the Government to [...]

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A rare manuscript charting the birth of modern science has been saved from a possible overseas sale just minutes before it was due to go under the hammer.
Robert Hooke’s minutes of the Royal Society from 1661 to 1682 had sparked huge worldwide interest and were expected to fetch between £1 million and £1.5 million [...]

A RARE first edition of James Joyce’s classic novel Ulysses is set to make thousands of pounds after being discovered in a cardboard box full of bric-a-brac at a house in Wiltshire.
The Dublin-born writer’s classic masterpiece turned up at a home in the cathedral city of Salisbury while the owners were having a clear-out.
The rare [...]

The lengthy patent battle between e-commerce giant eBay (Nasdaq: EBAY) and a small firm that says it came up with the popular “Buy it Now” technology first will get a hearing before the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday.
The focus of the hearing will be whether MercExchange should be granted an injunction barring eBay from using [...]

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FOR almost 50 years the Blue Peter badge has been coveted by generations of middle-class children as an emblem of hard work and achievement. The tiny piece of enamel with its distinctive ship logo has inspired thousands to help worthy causes, write letters, stories and poems and paint pictures to send in to [...]

Online payment company PayPal said on Wednesday it was preparing to offer a service for consumers to make purchases or money transfers using simple text messaging via mobile phones.
The move by PayPal, a unit of online auctioneer eBay Inc. (EBAY.O: Quote, Profile, Research), marks a big step in bridging the worlds of e-commerce and the [...]

Online auction website eBay.ie has launched a new service to help protect users against ‘phishing’ e-mails which attempt to gain personal details from members.
The “My Messages” service is an attempt to get around the problem of spoof e-mails sent to customers purporting to come from eBay. Such messages often ask users for information such as [...]

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Following closely on the heels of their successful launch of gumshoo (http://www.gumshoo.com) for eBay’s US, UK, Australian and Canadian marketplaces, VisibleOffice, LLC announces support for eBay Ireland and eBay India.
The gumshoo service (http://www.gumshoo.com) provides eBay shoppers with a free alternative to finding items listed on eBay. gumshoo offers its users search capabilities not found [...]

There have been demands this week for Government intervention to prevent the sale at auction of some of the country’s most precious historical artifacts and documents associated with the Easter 1916 Rising.
Two auction firms, Adam’s and Mealy’s, plan to sell off some of the materials associated with the event in an auction billed as the [...]

Auctioneers Kieran and McGee began business in Ardee in 1952 and closed their mart premises on June 15 last year after 53 years in the livestock trade, only to re-open their new premises yesterday.
The brand new mart, located just off the motorway, will hold its sheep and lamb sales every Monday at 11am, followed by [...]

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TWO of Dublin’s leading auction houses have gone to war over the Soldier’s Song. The battle has broken out ahead of two 1916-themed sales during Easter week, when both Adam’s and Whyte’s will be offering rival versions of the Irish national anthem.
Adam’s is expecting bids of up to €1.2m for a 1907 document that [...]

WITH 22,000 new cases of cancer reported in Ireland each year and hardly a family in Waterford that has not been struck by cancer at some time, people in the city and county are being asked to dig deep to support Daffodil Day, which takes place on Friday, March 24.
A target of €70,000 has been [...]