Artfact is pleased to announce its newest partnership with Whyte and Sons, Ireland’s premier auction house for Irish art and collectibles.
Founded in 1783, Whyte’s main offices in Dublin make it Artfact’s second Irish partner house. Each year, Whyte’s builds upon their reputation of two centuries of handling fine art in Dublin, offering lots from private collectors, estates, and an unrivaled range of Irish art and collectibles over six to eight carefully planned sales.
For more information on current, upcoming and past sales from Whyte’s, visit http://www.artfact.com/auction-house/whyte-s-nzjteozzhu

An eye witness account of the Battle of the Boyne estimated at £10,000 – 15,000 was sold yesterday at Bonham’s book sale for £43,200.
The journal’s author, Captain John Stevens, tells of the chaos caused by the drunkenness of King James’s troops at the crucial moments before battle was joined – a fact discreetly overlooked by 19th century historians. In fierce bidding, the book was finally sold to an unnamed buyer.
A specially bound first edition of James Joyce’s Ulysses made £22,800 against an estimate of £10,000-15,000 and the first …

A thousand drunken troops, and generals leading from behind are among the startling revelations in an eye-witness account of the battle of the Boyne for sale at Bonhams on June 8.
Captain John Stevens took part in the battle and later wrote of how a fatal mix up over drink rations led to some troops passing out before a shot was fired.
The Battle of the Boyne in 1690 was between the Protestant King of England and Scotland, William of Orange and the King he had deposed in the Glorious Revolution of …

Morgan O’Driscoll’s next auction on the 26th April 2010 has all the ingredients to be a very exciting sale, there are 285 lots of art and sculpture on offer. Many items have no reserve and nearly all have estimates not seen in the last 10 years.
Based in West Cork, Morgan O’Driscoll IAVI has been conducting auctions throughout Ireland since the company’s inception in 1994. We have built a strong reputation as one of Ireland’s leading Fine Art & Antiques Auction Houses.
Morgan O’Driscoll Fine Art & Antiques, Cork Road, Skibbereen, Co. …

An important portrait by Sir John Lavery (1856-1941) and undoubtedly the most important early masterpiece by Louis le Brocquy (b. 1916) will headline Sotheby’s annual Irish Sale in London on Thursday, 6 May 2010. Over 65 works from the sale are to be part of an extensive touring exhibition which starts at Lismore Castle Arts, Co. Waterford, on 17-18 April, and then continues in Dublin between 20-21 April and Belfast from 23-24 April.
he Gold Turban by Sir John Lavery (lot 30) is considered one of the finest portraits by the …

Spectrum Group International, Inc. announced that it has appointed Paul Soth as its Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President, effective immediately.
Mr. Soth, aged 51, served as Director of Income Tax Processes and Systems for Harrah’s Entertainment, Inc. from August 2009 until April 2010, and as Corporate Controller and Tax Manager for Fontainebleau Resorts from August 2006 to May 2009. Mr. Soth also served as Tax Manager of Mandalay Resort Group from August 1999 to April 2005. Mr. Soth graduated from California State University, San Marcos, with a B.S. in …

The Treasury Department has announced that it will auction $28 billion in 3-month notes.
The auction has been set for Monday, April 5. It has a maturity date of July 8.
The previous 3-month notes auction took place on March 29. It featured the sale of $28 billion of the security, a bid-to-cover ratio of 4.16 and a stop-out rate of 0.145 percent.
It also plans to auction $40 billion in 3-year notes.
The auction will take place on Tuesday, April 6. It has a maturity date of April 15, 2013.
The previous 3-year notes …

The Easter 1916 Irish flag that flew over the GPO during the Easter Rising failed to sell at a Bloomsbury Auctioneers Irish sale in New York on March 23 2010 when it was withdrawn at $400,000, a full $100,000 under its reserve price. The focal point of the 70-lot Irish Salewas the Tricolour flag. This unique icon of the Irish Revolution and the only recorded full sized tricolor of the 1916 Rising in existence.
Bloomsbury New York held the auction in conjunction with Whyte’s Auctioneers.

The 150 new jobs will be in customer service, personal account management and process enhancement. The latest job creation will bring to more than 1,600 the number of people employed at eBay and it;s payment company Paypal’s Blanchardstown site.
eBay’s Dublin site director Dublin Andrew Pease said the roles were in areas that support its global and European strategy, and the company is seeking strong technical skills in business analytics, knowledge management, project management and account management.
“The decision to expand eBay Dublin is a reflection of our confidence in the standard …

Bloomsbury Auctions, the world’s leading auction house for rare books and works on paper, announces The Irish Sale which will be held in its Manhattan rooms on Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 10am. The sale is held in conjunction with Whyte’s, Ireland’s premier auction house for Irish art and collectibles.
The focal point of the 70-lot Irish Sale is the Tricolour flag. This unique icon of the Irish Revolution and the only recorded full sized tricolor of the 1916 Rising in existence, is of the utmost rarity and importance (lot 26). …

The sale of a 4.6 per cent 2016 bond and a 4.5 per cent 2020 bond on March 16th is expected to raise between €1 billion and €1.5 billion.
“At its last monthly competitive auction in February, the NTMA raised €1.5bn, hitting the top of its target range at lower yields than in recent auctions in a sign that investors favoured Ireland’s debt over other weaker Euroland states,” said Bloxham’s chief economist Alan McQuaid.
“Purely on a funding perspective alone, Ireland is in better shape than the other ‘peripheral’ euro zone bond …

A Chinese blue and white vase started with a bid of €50 before two collectors started a bidding war.
Auction visitors at Sheppards Irish Auction House in County Laios, Ireland, watched as the vase was eventually sold for €110,000.
Richard Peters, 48, who runs an antiques company in Kensington, was the eventual buyer after outbidding a dealer who had flown in from Beijing, China, for the auction.
Mr Peters, who is adamant the vase was ‘made for the personal collection of Emperor Qianlong in the 18th century’, said: ‘I got a bargain!
‘The …

ICAP Ocean Tomo, the intellectual property brokerage division of ICAP plc (IAP.L), will offer for sale a patent portfolio of search engine and related online advertising technology at its upcoming Live Auction March 25th in San Francisco. The portfolio includes 6 issued U.S. patents and 14 patent applications.
The assets included in this Lot describe methods for the dynamic selection and placement of online advertisements alongside web content. The included applications provide for the selection of online advertisements based on the web content and financial parameters such as fees paid by …

Irish telecoms regulator Comreg has begun the auction process for the new 15-year licences. ComReg also says the auction could raise up to EUR182. The auction is expected to take place in the middle of 2010.
The licences are currently held by O2 and Vodafone.

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