Harper Field

The team at the freshly re-branded Harper Field were in fine form for the opening of its brand new saleroom earlier this month.

Stroud Auctions has completed its rebrand and relocation and is now called Harper Field Auctioneers & Valuers.

Periodicals were produced in a Scottish camp by inmates to make life a bit more meaningful

Born in Naples, the revivalist jeweller Carlo Giuliano (1831-95) made his name in London.

The Stroud engineer Edwin Beard Budding (1796-1846) is considered the inventor of the lawnmower (1830) and the adjustable spanner (1842).

Stroud Auction Rooms’ sale on November 9-10 will feature over 1000 lots of guns, weapons, medals and militaria, including two notable collections.

Greywacke sculpture headlines a series of high-flying results including £66,000 double bass

A suffragette’s true identity may have been uncovered by an auction house.

Stroud Auction Rooms is to rebrand and move to a new purpose-built saleroom.

Although apparently unmarked, this pair of twin-handled porcelain covered chocolate cups, covers and saucers are a Derby model from c.1790-95.

Shown below is a page from another early railway-related work that did well at auction.

A recent Stroud Auctions sale featured a private collection of more than 120 pieces of Georgian and Victorian jewellery. Most were rings, among them many examples of mourning jewellery in a wide range of forms and materials.

Interest from bidders in more than 40 countries competed for what Stroud Auctions (18% buyer’s premium plus VAT) called a “world-class private collection of over 4000 military badges”.

Star turn among some 120 lots of playing cards offered as part of a Stroud Auctions (18% buyer’s premium) sale was the last to be offered. A complete set of Charles Hodges’ Astronomical Playing Cards, it sold online for £3000.

Among the gems spotted in 2092 mixed lots at Stroud Auctions’ (18% buyer’s premium) year-opener on January 8, the best-seller was the final lot.

Tom Mason’s collecting bug began when his father sent him postcards and gifts from places where he was posted during the Second World War. By his early teens he had started his own collection of military memorabilia and began what would become a lifetime obsession with the American Civil War. Pen pals in the US and Canada helped him search for relics.