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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week we cover classic cars your parents had - or hoped for.

A new symposium tackles the issue of how best to care for fine art on superyachts.

Museums in the UK have been selling off their collections and have been unable to buy new works of art due to funding issues, a “deeply depressing” report has revealed.

Today marks Chinese New Year, heralding the year of the dog. Those born in the year of the dog are said to be loyal, honest, just and popular in social circles.

The entire coin collection of Byzantine scholar Simon Bendall was stolen from his home near Victoria in London during a break-in earlier this week.

An art trade-wide association regulating standards and ethics should be launched, chairman of The Art Loss Register Julian Radcliffe has argued.

Hong Kong’s bill for a stricter ban on ivory will be enacted this year but exemptions for antiques objects remain.

If it takes two auctions to offer a single-owner collection, you know it must be a big one. If it takes three, it must really be quite something.

Penman Antiques Fairs is launching a new antiques fair in Windsor, its first new event for two years.

Hero worship is not just a modern-day phenomenon. Back in 1915, Charlie Chapman was so impressed by a fan letter he received that he sent a personal reply.

Sotheby’s has bought Viyet, a website for interior design, vintage and antique furniture.

Famous for her children’s stories of Peter Rabbit and friends, Beatrix Potter Heelis (1866-1943) was a prolific letter writer.

The Canterbury Archaeology Trust is appealing for help to find the 850 Anglo-Saxon glass beads, multiple coins, metal artefacts and bone objects that have been stolen in a series of thefts from a storeroom in Kent.

A round-up of people in the news, in UK and US salerooms.