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On Friday, August 15, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $3354.79 / €2861.44 / £2466.76

The highest auction price for Joseph Edward Southall (1861-1944) for eight years came at Tennants’ (24% buyer’s premium) latest British, European & Sporting Art sale in North Yorkshire.

The second half of the 19th century was a key period in the European art pottery movement with much experimentation in glazing and design.

A late 15th century French illuminated manuscript vellum leaf achieved the stand-out result in a collection of illuminated manuscripts offered at Batemans (25% buyer’s premium).

A recent sale held by arms and armour specialist Antony Cribb (25% buyer’s premium) in Compton, Berkshire, included one of the rarest of British patent corkscrews.

Following the sale of a rare 1920s Louis Vuitton Explorer trunk for a hammer price of £130,000 at John Nicholson’s (25% buyer’s premium) on June 11, a second example emerged at the Surrey auction house.

Lomax launches third event in portfolio at location already hosting a separate biannual brocante

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

Gillian Raffles (1930-2021) was one of a very small number of pioneering female gallerists in Britain’s post-war art scene.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including a collection of early British stamps featuring a dozen Penny Blacks.

A group of seven first edition hardback copies of the Harry Potter books, all signed by author JK Rowling, was hammered down at $130,000 (£97,500), or $162,500 including premium, by Heritage Auctions on July 18.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish books and works on paper sales

A rare photograph from the funeral of Victorian explorer Dr David Livingstone (1813-73) comes to auction in Essex this summer.

Two 18th century scenes of Venice by Bernardo Canal (1664-1744) have been sold to the Italian museum Gallerie dell’Accademia di Venezia by London dealership Brun Fine Art for a six-figure sum.

The lost art of murrine - the creation of complex patterns by fusing together slices of coloured glass cane - was rediscovered by glass blowers in the Venetian lagoon in the late 19th century.

The sell-off of works once owned by failed art gallery Trinity House Paintings has begun with Sir John Lavery’s portrait of Mrs Geoffrey Birkbeck being sold at a Dreweatts auction.

The latest Arts Council annual report reveals six objects were saved for the nation in the past year and are on display at museums across the UK. In the year to April 30, 20 objects were considered, following export licence applications.