By COLIN BARTLEY A KILKENNY auction house was shocked when a doll’s house with a guide price of €3,000 – €4,000 was sold for 12 times that. An 1810 Travelling Baby house fetching an eye-watering €48,000 at the auction in Fonsie Mealy’s auction house in Castlecomer yesterday afternoon. The two-room mahogany doll’s house standing 44cm […]
By COLIN BARTLEY A FIRST edition copy of Ulysses signed by James Joyce was sold for €85,000 by a renowned Kilkenny auction house. Fonsie Mealy Auctioneers of Castlecomer sold the extremely rare first edition, no.30 copy, of the literary masterpiece at an auction in Dublin last week. Fonsie Mealy is renowned as a leading auctioneer […]