Out in my old stamping ground of Stratford-upon-Avon for The Daily Telegraph this week. It was to photograph the 42 pieces of silver from the Shropshire house associated with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's work 'The Hound of the Baskervilles'.

I'd been expecting silver soup tureens and such-but it turned out to be 'flatwear'. That's cutlery to you and me, and possibly knives and forks that the famous author had actually used himself. Each piece had the classic crest showing a hound with a spear through it and five drops of blood.