RNS Number:5088T
Shaw (Arthur) & Co PLC
3 November 2000


                          ARTHUR SHAW & COMPANY PLC                           
                       ("Arthur Shaw" or "the Company")                       
                                                                              

                       Appointment of Finance Director                       

Arthur Shaw announces that Tim Curle ACA has been appointed Finance Director
with immediate effect.  Mr Curle, (aged 45) qualified as a Chartered
Accountant with Price Waterhouse & Co in 1979 in the Birmingham office before
winning a place on Price Waterhouse International's overseas development
programme, spending two years in Miami and three years in Toronto.  

He left Price Waterhouse to join a client company, Geac Computer Corporation
Limited ("Geac") as corporate controller, having previously acted as lead
manager on the Price Waterhouse team at the time of Geac's IPO and listing on
the Toronto Stock Exchange.  After two years he transferred to London as
director of finance of Geac's European Operations.

At the beginning of 1993, Mr Curle joined Sotheby's as European financial
controller based in London, and was promoted to the position of European
finance director in 1995.   His other responsibilities latterly included the
management of the Sotheby's information technology department for Europe,
during which time the Sotheby's e-commerce site was launched.  He remained
with Sotheby's until October 2000, resigning to join Arthur Shaw. 



Enquiries:

Arthur Shaw                         Tel: 020 7706 7304
Bryan Morrison, Chairman                             
Tim Curle, Finance Director

John East & Partners                Tel: 020 7628 2200
David Worlidge                                          
                                                               
Compliance issues:

The following declaration is being made in accordance with paragraphs 6.F.1
and 6.F.2 of the Listing Rules of the UK Listing Authority. 

a)       The directorships held by Mr Michael Guy Lister (Tim) Curle (aged 45)
         over the five years preceding the date of this announcement other    
         than in the Company are as follows:

Current Directorships       Past Directorships
None                        Oatshare Limited
                            Sotheby's London Limited
                            Art Development India Limited
                            Suitlast Limited
                            Sotheby's Financial Services Limited
                            Sotheby's Institute for Fine and Decorative Arts  
                            Limited
                            Sotheby's Espana SL

b)        Mr Curle is not a partner in a partnership nor has been a partner in
          any partnerships in the five years preceding the date of this       
          announcement. 

c)        Mr Curle has no unspent convictions relating to indictable offences,
          has not been made bankrupt or made or been the subject of any       
          individual voluntary arrangement.

d)        Mr Curle has not been a director of any company at the time of, or  
          within twelve months preceding the date of, its receivership,       
          compulsory liquidation, creditors' voluntary liquidation,           
          administration, company voluntary arrangement or any composition or 
          arrangement with its creditors generally, or any class of its       
          creditors. Mr Curle has not been a partner of any partnership at the
          time of, or within twelve months preceding the date of, its         
          compulsory liquidation, administration or partnership voluntary     
          arrangement, or the receivership of any assets of such partnership, 
          nor have any of his assets been the subject of receivership.
                     
e)        Mr Curle has not been criticised by any statutory or regulatory     
          authority, or been disqualified by a court from acting as a director
          of a company or from acting in the management of the affairs of any 
          company.


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