Memorabilia from a vanished Ireland and art by Matisse

Des O'Sullivan previews a sale for collectors event and a hotel clearance auction

Left, 'Jazz', a framed print by Henri Matisse, at Aidan Foley's sale in Cong, right, a day at the Races, 1885-style, at Victor Mee.

Dunville's Whiskey, Capstan cigarettes, Fry's Chocolate, Guinness toucans and Mick McQuaid plug tobacco advertisements are among the nostalgia-generating lots on offer at Victor Mee's Collector's Collection sale online sale next Tuesday and Wednesday at 6pm on each day. 

More than 1,400 lots from an Ireland that is all but gone but still intensely familiar will come under the hammer. Sales of memorabilia, even those from beyond living memory like an 1885 Great Northern Railway advertisement for a special train to Baldoyle Races, remain enduringly popular.