WR Harvey’s book and autumn exhibition celebrate 65 years in the business – and one notorious woman

This mahogany and inlaid dressing table, which is on offer at WR Harvey Antiques 65th anniversary exhibition opening tomorrow, is remarkable in part because of its infamous original owner, an 18th century society woman whose crimes eventually sent two men to the gallows.

Margaret Caroline Rudd was a forger and with the identical twin brothers Daniel (with whom she had t…

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