A highlight at Fieldings Auctioneers’ July 7 sale in Stourbridge is a box containing personal effects reputed to have belonged to Captain William Kidd, the well-known Scottish sailor who was convicted of piracy and hanged in London on May 23, 1701.
The vendor had bought
the lot along with a number of other pirate items from an auction
at Oakden & Co of Eastbourne in 1950, where they had formerly
been in the collection of the late Hubert Palmer, a lawyer and
collector of pirate relics.
The £800-1200
estimated lot contains an 18th-century carved oak bible box, a
leather-bound King James II bible and a small oak-framed mirror,
each with the initials WK next to a skull and
crossbones.
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