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The suffragette memorabilia collecting market throws up some pretty strange items at times but few can be more unusual than the board game Pank-a-Squith.

Coins, banknotes and stamps specialist Spink has expanded its sales programme into the growing auction sector of luxury handbags.

Fine Art dealer Atelier offers a painting of the Great Eastern Railway Company’s Liverpool Street Hotel & Abercorn Rooms in London as a highlight of its stand at BADA 2018.

By coincidence, later this month Chiswick Auctions will be offering two works that were exhibited at the 1873 Vienna international exhibition.

In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. This week, we bring you comments about an important Chinese bowl coming up for sale and an important canine portrait just sold.

Phillips posted the highest total for an auction in the company’s history when its 20th Century & Contemporary Art evening sale this week generated £97.8m including premium.

The art market needs to address its issues around transparency if it wants to avoid enforced regulation, TEFAF Maastricht delegates were told this morning (March 9).