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Our weekly selection from salerooms.

Palace uses power of pre-emption to buy cast of Giambologna’s seminal sculpture at auction.

A look back at the headlines of 2019 reveals a healthy trend of launches and expansions.

On Friday, January 10, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1548.80 / €1397.41 / £1185.45

Sotheby’s (25% buyer’s premium) sale of art and antiques from the Regency manor house Spetchley Park in Wychavon, Worcestershire, held in London on December 11, included a range of ‘kunstkammer’ objects amassed by the Berkeley family in the 19th century.

This impressive and rare pair of silver table candlesticks with cluster columns, square bases and drip cups had no visible hallmarks but is probably Dutch and late 17th century in date.

This small Gothic Revival beaker was made by ecclesiastical metal manufacturer John Hardman (Birmingham, 1848) at the height of the first partnership with AWN Pugin.

Thousands of items are available to buy from dealers online. Here we pick out one that caught our eye this week.

The typical Georgian silver coffee pot is one of the great bargains of 21st century antiques collecting.

Games manifesto from 1892 and Audubon’s classic head a selection of money-spinners.

I knew Ian Norman (formerly of Porcelain Repairs) for over 35 years. He was a master craftsman of repairing antique porcelain.

Victorian silver novelties do not come much better than this claret jug, formed as a 9in (23cm) tall kneeling elephant by James Barclay Hennell, London 1881. The hinged head (currently lacking tusks) forms the cover.

This rediscovered drawing of the future George IV (1762-1830) is believed to have been owned by his true love Maria Fitzherbert (1756-1837).

A white porcelain sculpture made in the experimental years of the Chelsea factory has been acquired for the national ceramics collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum.

A sale of art and antiques from a Worcestershire manor house included the rare appearance at auction of two examples of Opus Anglicanum.

Trade bodies and dealers with shops have given a collective thumbs-up to the new Conservative government’s pledge to slash small business rates by half.

Scientific instruments and photographica specialist Flints Auctions has opened new premises and is launching a fresh type of sale.