Aardman puppets including Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep go to auction
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The Guardian World
3 Sept, 22:01over 14 hours4 Sept, 11:36
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Thu, 3 September 2026
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The auction will feature more than 220 lots to celebrate Aardman’s 50th anniversary with each starting at £100.
Fri, 4 September 2026
1 report- The Guardian World11:36
Nick Park began modelling the character as a feline, before finding it too difficult and changing him to a dog The creator of Wallace and Gromit has revealed that the world’s most famous stop-motion animated dog was nearly a cat. As Aardman Animations marks its 50th anniversary, Nick Park, who joined the studio in 1985, told the BBC he had originally modelled Gromit as a feline companion for Wallace. Continue reading...