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On Friday, April 23, Michael Bloomstein of Brighton was paying the following for bulk scrap against a gold fix of: $1785.30 €1479.87 £1286.84

Estimated at just £100-200, a rare automaton of a stereotypical Chinaman smoking an opium pipe sold for £7400 at McTear’s (24% buyer’s premium).

The familiar red-lettered, yellow-cloth covers of an 1897 first of Bram Stoker’s Dracula, though now somewhat soiled, prompted a far higher than predicted bid of $21,000 (£15,150) to lead a Chicago auction of March 19 – a sum bettered only by a handful of inscribed copies.

These weighty tomes contain the complete transcripts from a high-profile court case involving a Mayfair dealership in the early 1900s.

It’s nearly four months since the UK left the EU’s customs union and single market – a hard new reality for those Continental antiques dealers who regularly make the day trip from Belgium, Holland or France to stall out at fairs in southern England.

A round-up of art and antiques news from the previous seven days, including including the National Gallery acquiring a work by Isaack Luttichuys.

Our regular listing of UK and Irish book auctions.

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

Clementine Perrins is co-founder of online Contemporary art gallery Crean & Company. Her 20-year career spans various areas of the art world, with experience promoting art fairs, launching galleries and managing private collections.

This wintry landscape, Route Enneigée avec maison, environs d’Éragny, was painted in 1885 by French Impressionist Camille Pissarro (1830-1903).

The Osborne Studio Gallery, specialist in contemporary sporting paintings and bronzes, has sold this painting by artist Hubert de Watrigant (b.1954) for £18,000.

Art hub Cromwell Place has received approval from HMRC to operate an official Customs warehouse.

A selection of 16 upcoming lots from auctions taking place around the UK.

Portrait of Sarah Bernhardt was one of the stand-out lots in a 300-lot white-glove auction.

Duo organise south London pop-up market presenting five vintage poster dealers.

Swallow Fairs’ first three-day Decorative Home and Salvage Shows this year is the biannual event running at the 14th century Ripley Castle, near Harrogate, from noon on Friday, May 7, to Sunday, May 9.

Armorial head linked to the palaces of Henry VIII when he was married to Anne Boleyn.

A Constable-esque landscape turned a few heads at Chorley’s (22.5% buyer’s premium) latest fine art and antiques sale.

The moment has arrived for bibliophiles missing the physical sight and touch of books at actual fairs.

Original photographs of a well-known Pre-Raphaelite beauty – the muse of William Holman Hunt and the mother of Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell – sold for £2600 at Sworders (25% buyer’s premium).