Letter to Harper Field re: Nazi material being auctioned, 7th February 2026

Below you will find text of a letter sent to Mr Nick Bowkett and Harper Field this weekend, regarding their February auction (listed for Wednesday 11th Feb with viewings on Tuesday 10th and Wed 11th).

“We are writing with deep concern about your upcoming February auction. Nestled among the British and European medals and militaria are over 70 lots of various Nazi medals, armbands, pins, and other material. There appear to be hundreds of items from one of the darkest periods in European and world history. Many of the lots being sold are listed as replicas.

A few weeks ago, people in Stroud District came together to remember the Holocaust. We paid tribute to the six million Jews and millions of Slavic people, LGBTQ+, disabled people, religious minorities and others who were murdered by the Nazi regime. The sale of Nazi artefacts is an assault on their memory.

While the UK has not joined the majority of European countries that have banned the sale and display of Nazi symbols, in 2025 a major auction house in Scotland specialising in militaria took the decision to stop selling such items. They came to the conclusion that such items represent hate, terror, and suffering and are a painful reminder to those who lost family, friends and neighbours in the Holocaust. Trading in Nazi symbols trivialises and denies this cataclysmic event in our history.

We note that The Saleroom which hosts your on line auctions has a clear policy on prohibited and restricted items. We cannot see this policy on Harper Field’s website.
How is your business complying with it, particularly as you are selling replicas and have not stated any educational or historical purpose for the authentic items? We have raised this with The Saleroom.

Harper Field is making money on Nazi symbols. It is profiteering off the back of genocide, an immoral income and we think your business and the people of Stroud are better off without it. We believe the commercial trading of Nazism normalises and contributes to the rise of neo-Nazism, antisemitism, and hate which are on the rise in the UK, Europe and across the globe.

We know that you have been approached directly and asked not to proceed but thus far have declined. We ask you respectfully to reconsider your position and withdraw these items from sale and cease future sales of Nazi and SS paraphernalia.

Yours sincerely,

1. Lynn Haanen,
2. Caroline Beatty,
3. Helen Elliott-Boult,
4. Denise Needleman,
5. Chris Hey,
6. Julia Berg,
7. Simon Jacobson,
8. Rosie Wingate,
9. Josie Cowgill,
10. James Beecher,
11. Imogen Shaw,
12. Jeremy Green,
13. Adam Horovitz,
14. Caroline Molloy,
15. Jacqui Stearn,
16. Emma Calcutt,
17. Judith Large,
18. Pammy Michell,
19. Paul Shevlin,
20. Rose Harwood,
21. Pete Harwood,
22. Dawn Hebron,
23. Den Donnelly,
24. Iraina Clarke,
25. Martin Whiteside,
26. Liz Baldwin,
27. Sue Fenton,
28. Adrian Oldman,
29. Sue Oppenheimer,
30. Martin Gregg,
31. Dr Kevin Ashby,
32. Lynn Backen,
33. Lucia Jayaseelan,
34. Joel Levy,
35. Kaye Welfare,
36. Carole Oosthuysen,
37. Natalie Rothwell-Warn,
38. Midge Purcell,
39. Ela Pathak-Sen,
40. Liz Whiteside,
41. Suzanne McKenzie,
42. Marshall Taylor,
43. Lis Parker,
44. Fiona Eadie,
45. Kim Roberts,
46. Naomi Ryan,
47. Veronica Koller,
48. Jennifer Sawtell,
49. John Miles,
50. Liz Green,
51. Perdita Dawson,
52. Anne Adler,
53. Marina Bielenky,
54. Jude Emmett,
55. Theresa Mansbridge,
56. Liz Lewis,
57. Dave Mathews,
58. Rachel Curley,
59. Tom Berry,
60. Delia Parnham Cope,
61. Katy Hofmann,
62. Cath Moore,
63. Maggie Dutton,
64. Steve Robinson,
65. Terry Cook,
66. Chris Haynes,
67. Terri Kinnison,
68. Julia Wilton,
69. Henry Wilton,
70. Len Wilton,
71. Mick Fealty,
72. Adrian Davis,
73. Andy MacCulloch,
74. Elizabeth Stanley,
75. Graham Stanley,
76. Sarah Coldrick,
77. Sue Colverd,
78. Annie Fallows,
79. Pete Fallows,
80. Lidia Cabello,
81. Tony Burton,
82. Anne Fredrick,
83. Peter Twyman,
84. Gina Mann,
85. Adam Beard,
86. Margaret Lear,
87. Holly Antrum,
88. Jack Southern,
89. Michele Lazarus,
90. Julie Cigman,
91. Amanda Sultan,
92. Roberta Hollingshead,
93. Tree Staunton,
94. Mandy Bell,
95. Jon Robinson,
96. Professor Adrian C Davis OBE,
97. Caroline Simpson,
98. Steve Lydon,
99. Jamila Gavin,
100. Milly Hill,
101. Fraser Dahdouh,
102. Bob Blenkinsop,
103. Paula Hogard
104. Alison Kearin
105. Haydee Roberts
106. Philip Willmott
107. David Huband
108. Anne Cooper
109. Richard Styles
110. Linda Pace
111. Simon Dryer
112. Kate Kevett
113. Ali Coles
114. Ben Spencer
115. Nicky Rawson
116. Mike Davis
117. Paula Hogard
118. Lors Elenway
119. Kathy Trevelyan
120. Nicky Turner
121. Emily Joy
122. Fiona Stuart
123. Chris Stockwell
124. Martin Stockwell
125. Sam Gowing
126. Rachel Witham

And more signatories who are coming forward. An updated list will be posted on Facebook on Monday

CC: The Saleroom by email

Who are we:

Community Solidarity Stroud District exists to build community led solidarity in the Stroud district to oppose the hatred of minorities and oppressed people arising from false and harmful information.