February 24th at Sheppard's of Durrow, Co Laois. £24,000 for a late 19th-century kingwood cylinder desk; £10,000 for a Regency drum table; £10,000 for an Irish gilt console table; £9,500 for a George III bureau bookcase; and £8,000 for a George III silver table. February 26th at Whyte's of Dublin.

£2,000 for complete set of British half-crowns from 1902-1910; £1,000 for two Victorian pounds, sovereign and half sovereign, dating from 1887; £800 for Hiberno-Norse Phase One silver penny, circa 995-1020; £600 for George III Bank of Ireland token, six shillings in silver.