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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]