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Top stories this week including Sotheby’s raising its buyer’s premium

01 March 2026

The most read stories on this website over the last week included news of auction house Sotheby’s raising its fees to buyers

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Dealer Paul Fitzsimmons' 'Life in Oak' told through 700 lots at Woolley & Wallis

27 February 2026

Woolley & Wallis is conducting a single-owner sale of early furniture and sculpture over two days on March 10-11. The auction, titled Paul Fitzsimmons – A Life in Oak, offers 708 lots from the proprietor of specialist oak dealership Marhamchurch Antiques that opened in Devon in 1991.

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West London valuation day leads to mass evacuation after live shells, ammunition and landmine emerge from a Harrods bag

27 February 2026

A routine valuation day at Chiswick Auctions led to an evacuation of the venue and the surrounding estate after live shells, ammunition and a landmine were brought in.

Paleo artwork of ‘Juliasaurus’

Mayfair antiquities dealer part of the team revealing a 154-million-year-old fossil

27 February 2026

Natural history and antiquities gallery David Aaron is involved in the planned exhibition of a theropod fossil at Hollytrees Museum in Colchester. The fossil may be key to uncovering a new dinosaur species.

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Book fair returns to Harrogate hotel for spring event

27 February 2026

The PBFA (Provincial Booksellers and Fairs Association) next event is in Harrogate where the fair returns to The Old Swan Hotel.

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Triple celebration for public artworks cataloguer Art UK

26 February 2026

Art UK has a triple celebration: the Art UK platform was launched 10 years ago, it now has catalogued one million artworks and it has appointed a new chairman.

Village School by Robert Tavener

Kent County Council offloads further artworks at auction

26 February 2026

Auction house Sworders is selling a second tranche of artworks consigned by Kent County Council.