Antiques: From The Book of Kells to Jimi Hendrix

Facsimiles of 'The Book of Kells', a pocket seal of Michael Collins and an album signed by Jimi Hendrix are among the collector's items on offer, writes Des O'Sullivan

Michael Collins' pocket seal with the initials M.C. in reverse at Fonsie Mealy.

With an original copy of the Irish Constitution, a first edition of Ulysses in the centenary year of its publication, the pocket seal of Michael Collins engraved with his initials, facsimiles of The Book of Kells and the Lindisfarne Gospels, a collection of Beatles signatures, an album signed by Jimi Hendrix and Cork's first All-Ireland Football gold medal from 1894, there is little not to like about Fonsie Mealy's Christmas Rare Books and Collectors sale.

"Here be Treasure" is what they used to write on the old pirates' maps and "X marks the Spot". In this auction there is a respectable quota of 1,156 x's.