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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from the voices of the art and antiques market.

The Antique Cane Society’s annual seminar takes place next month.

Weighing a collective 25kg with 448 legs and 224 ears, a collection of 112 solid silver cow creamers is currently on the market from Mark Littler.

John Thomas Smith, reportedly born in a hackney carriage on a June evening in 1766, was an artist, writer and a Londoner.

A mysterious 2000-year-old relic found in the Derbyshire Peak District by a local metal detectorist goes under the hammer at Hansons Auctioneers next week.

Fascination with the royal family has been fuelled even further recently by the release of Netflix series The Crown which takes an intimate look at the public and private life of Queen Elizabeth II.

The proposed Kensington gallery hub of Cromwell Place has hired a managing director to lead the project and attract tenants.

A George II polychrome-painted bridal chest leads Bonhams Oak Interior sale on September 20 with an estimate of £30,000-40,000.

Hansons Auctioneers in Etwall, Derbyshire will offer a Yongzheng (1723-35) mark and period dish as part of its Fine Arts and Asian auction on September 29.

A postcard linked to the Jack the Ripper murders will go under the hammer this October.

Glynde Place in East Sussex has won the 2017 Historic Houses Association Restoration Award, sponsored by auction firm Sotheby’s.

Art and antiques owned by the late businessman James Fairfax will be offered at auction next month.

A $160m (£136m) masterpiece by Dutch-American abstract-impressionist painter Willem de Kooning (1904-1997) that had been stolen from a US museum 30 years ago has been discovered in an antiques shop.

Works from pioneering photography collector Paul F Walter will be auctioned at Christie’s next month.

One thing you can rely on every summer is the outraged stories in the press about the sums being spent by Premier League football clubs on the great, the good and the Jozy Altidores.

A 1987 Rolls-Royce Silver Spur I used in the past by Princess Diana is included in Auctions America’s upcoming sale in Auburn, Indiana (August 31-September 3).