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Seizing the moment

IT was an even greater pleasure than I had expected to visit the Petworth Park antiques fair in mid September. There was doubt about its opening almost to the moment that it did, but circumstances—and the weather—were kind.

Business was done across the board, including a rare Regency four-fold screen from William Cook, and it was moving to feel the real joy of exhibitors and visitors once again doing something that they loved, in the traditional way.

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