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In our weekend series, Antiques Trade Gazette brings you a selection of quotes from dealers, auctioneers, collectors and others. Long collecting careers and challenges to organisations are among the assortment this week.

Sotheby’s have purchased a New York-based artificial intelligence company that specialises in image recognition and ‘recommendation’ technology.

London rare books and manuscripts dealer Maggs Bros is offering a small reward to anyone who can help solve a mystery contained in a cartoon of Winston Churchill.

China Guardian is to open a new flagship building in Beijing this spring with auction and museum space.

An Arctic Medal with a provenance indicating it was awarded to a member of the doomed Franklin Expedition which vanished into the icy wastes searching for the elusive Northwest Passage has surfaced at a Surrey auction house.

Heritage Auctions in Dallas is offering more than 1000 lots at its February 22 Comics auction including an original Spider-Man cover by artist John Romita Sr.

A call has gone out to help raise £3m to create a Welsh sculpture park and tourist centre that includes an 80ft (24m) bronze sculpture of a dragon.