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Golding Young & Mawer to sell Stamford dealer 800-lot collection without reserve

28 March 2019

Lincolnshire auctioneer Golding Young & Mawer is to sell the stock and personal collections of Stamford-based antiques dealers Gavin Burns and his son Ross later this month, following their retirement from the business in December 2018.

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Annual Beatles memorabilia auction held by US saleroom Juliens' will be staged in Liverpool for the first time

28 March 2019

Beatlemania is coming to Liverpool. Well, it never went away, but this fresh wave of interest in the ever-popular Fab Four is in the form of an annual auction held by an American saleroom that is now to be held on Merseyside.

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Police appeal for help to catch criminal gang behind multi-million-pound gem theft from Fleet Street jeweller

27 March 2019

The Met Police’s Flying Squad are appealing for help to find a gang of criminals who reportedly tunnelled into jewellery dealer George Attenborough & Son on Fleet Street.

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March mega-sleepers: Nine items that sold for more than 100-times estimate at auction

27 March 2019

The month of March produced an unusually large number of sleepers across the UK’s regional salerooms – from an Old Master drawing to a rare Marklin tinplate train.

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McCartney’s English school book sells for £39,000 at auction in Merseyside

27 March 2019

The English Literature school book of The Beatles’ Sir Paul McCartney has been bought at auction for £39,000.

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New look and extended run for summer Olympia as antiques fair separates from House & Garden Festival

27 March 2019

Organisers of The Art & Antiques Fair Olympia have revamped its look, dates and marketing strategy for this year’s summer edition in a move to distinguish it from the simultaneous House & Garden Festival.

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Mallams Auctioneers holds selling exhibition of works by author and ‘last living surrealist’ Desmond Morris

27 March 2019

A selling show of surrealist paintings by artist and scientist Desmond Morris takes place at Mallams in Oxford next month.