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On Friday, February 22, 2019, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1322.25 / €1072.71 / £1016.15

This exceptional candlestick belongs to a small group of cast and enamelled brass wares made in the second half of the 17th century. All are distinguished by their method of production: unlike champlévé or cloisonné decoration, the enamelled fields were cast in the mould.

Two single-owner collections built up over lifetimes were well received at Canterbury Auction Galleries (20% buyer’s premium) on February 5-6.

Good times at the Oxford rooms of Mallams (20% buyer’s premium), when all bar one of 56 clocks got away almost all going comfortably above estimates.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

A rare Georgian invalid’s ‘chair lift’ is one of the highlights at the Scone Palace Antiques & Fine Art Fair.

Tony Parkinson, who died suddenly just after Christmas, at the age of 75, was a much-respected and well-loved book dealer in Southport for over 40 years. He opened Parkinson’s Books in its current location on Lord Street in 1981, specialising in antiquarian books, of which he had an encyclopaedic knowledge.

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Sarah Delves of Bags of Glamour is an exhibitor at the next Art & Antiques for Everyone fair (April 4-7).

Collectables untouched by Byronmania but selling well at the Harold Ward auction at Mellors & Kirk on February 6-7 included a 19th century ‘Grand Tour’ Italian alabaster model of the Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, and a gold-mounted malacca walking cane engraved to the pommel with the 1816-37 royal arms.

Three modestly valued works selling at regional sales below £1700, including a a Francis Cyril Rose self-portrait.

The popular 140-stall antique and collectors’ fair organised by Haddon Events at the Crook Log Leisure Centre in Bexleyheath has a change of date in March.

The sale of two great collections at auction – one in London, the other in New York – has highlighted the ebbs and flows of the market for early British pottery and furniture.

With the great country house contents sales of the past now largely a distant memory, single-owner collection sales have become the next-best thing.

The best Egyptian antiquities now engender much more than mere scholastic fervour but, for the most part, humbler objects remain eminently affordable.

Drawing interest from the US was a portrait of a fierce-looking Scottish laird by John Pettie (1839-93).

Our weekly selection from salerooms and dealerships.

Alfies Antiques Market has paid tribute to one of its dealers, Paola Noé, who died on January 19.

This 2ft (60cm) high Charles II needlework looking glass worked with figures and fantastical beasts emblematic of the seasons was estimated at $10,000-15,000 but sold at $80,000 (£61,500) in the Vogel collection auction at Sotheby's New York.