The personal effects of a Scottish pirate
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 &a…